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willow
- it’s okay rina you don’t believe in truth you’re a good kitty cat - see below
willowDec 12, 2024
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.
fwiw i’m basically saying the opposite of “just let people be happy dude”
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willow
i'm aware mine is a hopeless and unreasonable demand; nonetheless, the strategy of making peace with my situation is grossly offensive. writhing when pain is inflicted upon me is the last vestige of humanity i can hang onto. i am philosophically opposed to happiness.
willowDec 12, 2024
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.
fwiw i’m basically saying the opposite of “just let people be happy dude”