Wednesday, 18 October 2023

"Wallace makes a bold claim: that in the daily grind of life, “there is no such thing as atheism; we all worship.” He suggests to the graduates that a compelling reason for us to worship some transcendent being or some other abstract ideal, instead of material goods, beauty, power, or personal intelligence, is that worshiping these things will “eat you alive.”

GM

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 Excellent question — and yes, there’s a real conceptual resonance between Žižek’s “fetishistic disavowal” and both pluralistic ignorance ...