a shaft of light from the telos falls onto labour. Basically, people are too short-sighted. They misinterpret the light that falls on labour from ultimate goals. Instead, they take labour qua labour as the telos and hence see their personal work success as that purpose. That is the secret. If they …
we succumb to the mechanism of reification, in the course of which we forget the best thing of all. That turns a part of the process into an absolute
it is still unclear why work should be cathected in the first place
The gesture of the savage who pauses for an instant to reflect whether or not he wishes to eat his prisoner contains teleologically the end of violence