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Viktor Runeberg

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Sat Jan-01-05 01:03 PM
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59. Um, you don't get it

Enlightenment isn't a set of conventional, cute paradoxes about the "emptiness" of self - nor a self taking pride in having mastered the production of same.

The Republicans would be very happy if we'd all just go back to being hippies somewhere on the margins, providing the example of the futility and vacuity of resistance. Is this why books about "no self" and "the falseness of distinctions" are displayed so generously in so many corporate bookstores?

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