Violence Is Our Way: The Great Delusion of Civilization
Beneath the pretense of benevolence lurks savage conquest.
Naïve positivity — the unilateral proclamation that ‘everything is alright with the world’ — forms the foundation upon which our understanding as individuals and society of individuals, i.e. civilization, stands. To be a pessimist, to be a realist, is to be shunned from said society, referred to the perilous métier of the mental health professionals. If…
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