Here is an explanation of Epstein that makes more sense than this typical garbage from commentators like Matt, with their anti-communist, anti-Soviet explanations and apologia for capitalism—complete with scary Russian words.
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Tag: Capitalism
Kumbaya for the Modern Martian
Our plan is simple; SOCIALISM!
Medicine, power and political control
“Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say” +
From Nietzsche’s Unpublished Writings from the period of Unfashionable Observations:
Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability. The human being evades suffering as best he can, but even more so he evades the meaning of endured suffering; he seeks to forget what lies behind it by constantly setting new goals.
Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say
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Nietzsche, Marx, and the Modern Left
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[Crosspost] On Fear, Contradiction, and the Self
I’m not really a fan of Stoicism, but I haven’t really given it a fair chance, so I decided to download Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Seneca’s Letters on Ethics. I have a tendency to cherry pick quotes for inspiration though, so I looked up some from Seneca.
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The Fracture of Reciprocity
“If you love without evoking love in return – that is, if your loving as loving does not produce reciprocal love; if through a living expression of yourself as a loving person you do not make yourself a beloved one, then your love is impotent – a misfortune.” – Karl Marx
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