rebeleconprof on Nostr: “What is really frightening today is not the challenge of this new meaning, but the ...
“What is really frightening today is not the challenge of this new meaning, but the Kafkaesque rejection of all meaning. What is frightening is the conjunction of massive technical power and the spiritual surrender of nihilism. A panic-stricken refusal to glance, even furtively, in the only direction where meaning could still be found dominates our intellectual life.”
— René Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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