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lmfao thank you pinksky for posting this reply
while i’m here: alt text backfill youtu.be/Wkfe6RRq74w
they’re not worried about not being affirmative, they’re happy to be completely negative. that’s one of the things they hated most about the united states. they go to the united states and the first thing they’re confronted with is people telling them to keep smiling all the time, people telling them to keep smiling all the time. brecht at one point says “it’s really exhausting to live in this country. everyone’s always telling me to keep smiling but sometimes i prefer to be depressed and look in the air and not do anything” and so they have no objection of the schopenhauerian view that the world - the world as we live in - is basically a horrible place

raymond geuss in “in our time s12e16 - the frankfurt school” around 24:20