I love me some Zizek...

"Psychoanalysis will be entirely discredited one of these days, no doubt about it. Which will not keep it from destroying our last vestiges of naivete. After psychoanalysis, we can never again be innocent."
- Emil Cioran

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"We are by no means opposed to the globalization of relationships as such-in fact, as we said, the strongest forces of Leftist internationalism have effectively led this process. The enemy, rather, is a specific regime of global relations that we call Empire."
- Antonio Negri

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But also, don't obsess. Read casually, be prepared for the long path...

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
- Confucius

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"Not only can logos be seen in absolutely all animals, but in many of them it has the groundwork for being perfected."
- Porphyry

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When I say "Universality is unquestionable!" that bothers a lot of people. Identity particularities like nationalism, classism, religious groups have a vested interest in assuring everything in philosophy remains questionable...especially WITH the support of those who do the right thing by choice. When it's right...it deserves to be crystallized.....identity particularity shouldn't control all unquestionable truths....Substack piece inbound...

"By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures."
- Marshall McLuhan

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