Michele Pasin / Quotes

Il male dell'epoca è la decadenza

Si dice spesso che nella società di oggi domina l’arroganza, la presunzione, l’eccesso di assertività. Non sono affatto d’accordo. Se siamo affetti da un male, tra i tanti, è la decadenza. Le uniche bandiere che vedo sventolare sono i guidoni del terrore, che schioccano su una massificata sottovalutazione di sé. Ognuno pensa che senza lavoro, senza quell’unica sua occupazione, bella o brutta che sia, morirebbe certamente di fame, per il preciso motivo che non saprebbe «fare altro». Non è vero!

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#work #fear #self #society

Purposeless play gives survival a point

A Chinese philosophical work called The Secret of the Golden Flower says that “when purpose has been used to achieve purposelessness, the thing has been…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #work #things #society

Work less to enjoy life more

The idea that society might work less in order to enjoy life more goes against standard thinking that celebrates the virtue and discipline of hard work…

The Case For Working Less #idea #society #life #good-life #work

God, the world and the self

Abruptly, almost with a pop, my mind cleared and I came back to myself. I was utterly calm and centered . . . ominously so. I felt I had acceded to a higher…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #God #world #self #fear #psychedelics

Are we social constructions?

You can’t just live in your private reality. What this suggests is that, like the body, the social matters primarily for how it helps frame and shape our…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #society #identity #relationship

Four claims about the self

My argument so far supports four main claims: First, there is no thing or part of you which contains your essence. Your body, your brain and your memories are…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #soul #unity #society

Middle-aged women disappear

A second, related way in which the social self matters is that if people are treated very differently depending on how they appear, that can change how they…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #society #women #age #self