alice roberts: "i've felt myself become a lot less curious and critical lately. i just don't have the energy or willpower to intentionally introduce any more conflict into my life"

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i've felt myself become a lot less curious and critical lately. i just don't have the energy or willpower to intentionally introduce any more conflict into my life

September 26, 2024 at 9:23 AM

alice robertsSep 26, 2024

The private existence, which yearns to look like one worthy of human beings, simultaneously betrays the latter, because the similarity of the general implementation is withdrawn, which more than ever before requires an independent sensibility [Besinnung]. There is no exit from the entanglement. The only responsible option is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one’s own existence, and as for the rest, to behave in private as modestly, inconspicuously and unpretentiously as required, not for reasons of good upbringing, but because of the shame that when one is in hell, there is still air to breathe.

Minima Moralia 6, Thedor Adorno