4 tags

Mar 31st

1 note

4 tags

Mar 21st

4 notes

7 tags

lowered expectations

In this secular sermon, Alain challenges the great bourgeois promise that everyone can find happiness in love and work and suggests that we take on the joys of pessimism instead. … Indeed, in denying a place for misery and despair, the modern world denies us the possibility of collective consolation, condemning us instead to solitary feelings of shame and persecution. 

Mar 11th

11 notes

5 tags

Mar 11th

2 notes

5 tags

Mar 4th

1 note