Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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Page 118
... masses now wear the white coats of hospital psychiatrists who transform dirty dissident victims with the latest techniques of “ secular " science . It is grotesque , but Burke had warned us to always watch for the " secular equivalents ...
... masses now wear the white coats of hospital psychiatrists who transform dirty dissident victims with the latest techniques of “ secular " science . It is grotesque , but Burke had warned us to always watch for the " secular equivalents ...
Page 132
... masses hungry for it and fearful of it . Each society elevates and rewards leaders who are talented at giving the masses heroic victory , expiation for guilt , relief of personal conflicts . It doesn't matter how these are achieved ...
... masses hungry for it and fearful of it . Each society elevates and rewards leaders who are talented at giving the masses heroic victory , expiation for guilt , relief of personal conflicts . It doesn't matter how these are achieved ...
Page 161
... masses willingly embed their fearful freedoms.20 There we have it : the culmination of the Enlighten- ment in a proper focus on the fundamental dynamics of mass slavishness . On the highest level of sophistication we know in detail what ...
... masses willingly embed their fearful freedoms.20 There we have it : the culmination of the Enlighten- ment in a proper focus on the fundamental dynamics of mass slavishness . On the highest level of sophistication we know in detail what ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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