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the individualist position on suicide

The individualist position, which treats every person’s life outcomes as being entirely of their own making, represents both a deep moral callousness and a total indifference to empirical fact. We know that people are irrational, frail, and ambivalent, that they make choices they regret, that their…

—p.115 The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture Suicide and the American Dream (111) by Nathan J Robinson
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the Drinking Class

The structure of Brice’s lyrics shows a keen awareness of socioeconomic class. But this is not the labor movement’s conception of class, with its exhortation to social change. The Lee Brice theory of class is empty of meaning. It’s hopeless and sad; nothing is left but solipsistic in-group pride an…

—p.110 Peculiarities of the Yankee Confederate (105) missing author
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radical performances of self-hatred

The relatively harmless tweeting of today certainly leaves fewer human casualties behind. But it is still based on a common impulse – the expression of total contempt for one’s own society expressed through progressive language. In this internal psychodrama the oppressed appear as purely symbolic, …

—p.94 The Scourge of Self-Flagellating Politics (89) by Angela Nagle