Friday 16 January 2009

bourgeois individualists...

.....cannot be moral. Even if they want to.

They cannot because they cannot know themselves. They are the unknowable thing in itself, separated forever from self-knowledge since they are, on principle, separated from their bodies as sources of meaning and knowledge.

Since they cannot know themselves, they are subject to all sorts of social manipulation. They are conditioned by forces outside of their consciousness.

You cannot trust them.

They seem reliable and logical enough -- up to the point that they blow up and attack you.

Why?

For reasons that they do not know.

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Cultural barriers to objectivity