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December 23, 2015

‘My view’, says Scruton, ‘is that what’s underlying all of this is a kind of nihilistic vision that masks itself as a moving toward the enlightened future,

but never pauses to describe what that society will be like.
It simply loses itself in negatives about the existing things – institutional relations like marriage, for instance – but never asks itself if those existing things are actually part of what human beings are. Always in Zizek there’s an assumption of the right to dismiss them as standing in the way of something else, but that something else turns out to be Nothing.’ ‘Left thinkers have destroyed the intellectual life’ | spiked

Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 23, 2015 4:36 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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'... that something else turns out to be Nothing.'

Embodying a vacuum of values, these Negators take pride in being Heroes of Zeroes, 'pouring from their emptiness into their void.'
(h/t) paraphrase from George Gurdjieff

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 25, 2015 6:08 PM

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