Desire and Fate

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Desire and Fate
Desire and Fate

Desire and Fate

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davidrieff
Mar 24, 2023
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Ours is an ill-mannered society that wears those bad manners as a badge not just of its moral rectitude but of its millenarian ethical ambitions. At the same time, in no society in recent memory have people been so easily affronted. As a result, we have become a society that seems to be walking around without its skin on.

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