Sublime

the bond between love and grief is what I am asking us to see.

Au XXIe siècle, cependant, on ne peut guère se permettre la stabilité. Si vous essayez de vous accrocher à une identité stable, un travail ou une vision du monde, vous risquez fort de vous retrouver en rade tandis que le monde continuera sa course folle. L’espérance de vie étant susceptible d’augmenter, vous pourriez passer des décennies dans un ét

What values and practices can hold people together as the institutions in which they live fragment?

our democratic decisions regarding the distribution of wealth are thus constrained by the need to facilitate continued profiteering.

Liberals value individual liberty so much because they believe that humans have free will.

The political project of democratic socialism requires secular faith.

neo-liberalism cements an individualism that weakens the individual, leaving the majority to drift into a precariat sphere, in no position to have realisable dreams.

this commitment to the how over the what is essential to laying the seeds of a secular age.

The dynamic of secular faith thus accounts for the possibility of ongoing commitments—whether to individual aspirations, love relations, or collective endeavors. These are secular forms of faith because they are devoted to projects that are bound by time.