Some Epigrams Against Life
Each of us believes our visions are good and right and with enough reason will be accepted generally.
Hemmed in by choices we are told are freedom, we are compelled to accept reality.
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The limits of our imagination are dictated by these contours and we are told this is reason.
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Numerical descriptions contain us as populations, a people to be controlled through scraps of survival.
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Our profound alienation creates the dream of fulfillment through our own actions: the pinnacle of civilization.
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The realization of the will of the people—though multifarious and many-hued—resolves itself in the release from work.
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Every man a king and his neighbors slaves—this is how democracy functions.
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