willow: "fwiw i’m basically saying the opposite of “just let people be happy dude”"

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fwiw i’m basically saying the opposite of “just let people be happy dude”

adorno, negative dialectics, 352

The chances are that every citizen of the wrong world would find the right one unbearable; he would be too impaired for it. To the consciousness of intellectuals who do not sympathize with the world spirit, this should add a dash of tolerance amidst their resistance. If a man will not be stopped from differing and criticizing, he is still not free to put himself in the right. Throughout the world, of course, no matter under which political system, such added indulgence would be ostracized is decadent. The aporia extends to the teleological concept of a happiness of mankind that would be the happiness of individuals; the fixation of one's own need and one's own longing mars the idea of a happiness that will not arise until the category of the individual ceases to be self-seclusive. Happiness is not invariant; to be always the same is the essence of unhappiness alone.
From the start, whatever happiness is intermittently tolerated or granted by the existing entirety bears the marks of its own particularity. 4 To this day, all happiness is a pledge of what has not yet been, and the belief in its imminence obstructs its becoming.

December 12, 2024 at 9:27 AM