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Chai
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Pyres retweeted
Rousseau on how progress multiplies inequality:
Every technical advance (fire, weapons, clothes, huts, the domestication of animals, agriculture and with it property) takes natural differences that are harmless in themselves and turns them into moral inequality.
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The form of humanity is not just the instantiation of humans. It is the universe insofar as it has the constitution of individual humans as an end. It is the soil, sun, stars, the weather, the evolutionary chain, etc., insofar as they converge and produce individual humans.
authority that we confuse for anal retentiveness of Cormac McCarthy’s Judge Holden: “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent”—white power. Being neither man nor commodity; deified into nullity, nothingness: thither, the negro—neither natural or
mostly because it obscures every detail that makes the original play--that it was composed at all, that it was performed at all, in the turbulent political climate in which it was produced--moot. to have three woman play the weird sisters is a total aesthetic and dramaturgical
