Those Who Sentimentally Indulge Humanity Do It

What's Wrong With A Bit Of Nostalgia Between Friends? I Think Nostalgia Sometimes Gets Too Much Of A Bad Press.

Men And Women Do Not Easily Submit To A Power That Does Not Weave Itself Into The Texture Of Their Daily Existence - One Reason Why Culture Remains So Politically Vital. Civilisation Cannot Get On With Culture, And It Cannot Get On Without It.

For Aristotle, Goodness Is A Kind Of Prospering In The Precarious Affair Of Being Human.

In Conscious Life, We Achieve Some Sense Of Ourselves As Reasonably Unified, Coherent Selves, And Without This Action Would Be Impossible. But All This Is Merely At The 'imaginary' Level Of The Ego, Which Is No More Than The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Human Subject Known To Psychoanalysis. The Ego Is Function Or Effect Of A Subject Which Is Always Dispersed, Never Identical With Itself, Strung Out Along The Chains Of The Discourses Which Constitute It.

Capitalism Will Behave Antisocially If It Is Profitable For It To Do So, And That Can Now Mean Human Devastation On An Unimaginable Scale. What Used To Be Apocalyptic Fantasy Is Today No More Than Sober Realism.