"I learn by going where I have to go." Theodore Roethke (The Waking) "Is there an instinctual drive to amass wealth? There appears to be no possible doubt about this. We meet this drive every day and in widely varying degrees in different people. It can assume pathological forms, for example, in the miser, who in order to become rich foregoes the satisfaction of other more rational needs, or in the person who strives to become wealthy in order to ward off a fear of impoverishment and the like. The drive has normal forms; indeed a person in whom it is completely lacking will in our society be considered abnormal." Otto Fenichel (The Drive to Amass Wealth) “Hate America?” he said, “I … [Read more...]
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The Return, part one
March 5, 2025 by 1 Comment
“To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.” Lucretius (On the Nature of Things) "Children know nothing of the horrors of corruption, of freezing in the ice-cold grave, of the terrors of eternal nothingnes." Sigmund Freud (The Interpretation of Dreams) "(rituals as) temporal techniques of making oneself at home in the world..." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Citadelle) “The occupants of the digital panopticon are not prisoners. Their element is illusory freedom. They feed the digital panopticon with information by exhibiting themselves and shining a light on every part of their … [Read more...]
