When religious language does more work for political identity than religious ethics do for moral conduct, God becomes useful in ways we should all probably question.
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Civilisation: Diary of a Madman
A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.
Ideology is what happens when a way of seeing the world becomes part of the world itself, shaping not only what we believe, but what becomes easier to believe next.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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the same problem
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.
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local logic, global reality
Local truth works. Global closure fails. The difference is reality.
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stop making sense
No finite system of distinctions exhausts the relational continuity from which those distinctions arise. Reality exceeds every local logic.
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language
We do not simply use language. We participate in its continual reconstruction, and through that reconstruction language continually participates in ours.
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