“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.” -James Baldwin
4 responses to “I felt like a lip-reader watching the communication of despair”
That is the most important lesson- almost all other practical philosophy is useless without it.
indeed, my own lived sense of alienation (life in the wake of undergoing nihilism) is that it is truly uncanny (un-homing) one is acutely aware but largely impotent, JB says:
“Coming to the defense of the rejected and the destitute, they were confronted with the extent of their own alienation, the unimaginable dimensions of their own poverty.”
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That is the most important lesson- almost all other practical philosophy is useless without it.
indeed, my own lived sense of alienation (life in the wake of undergoing nihilism) is that it is truly uncanny (un-homing) one is acutely aware but largely impotent, JB says:
“Coming to the defense of the rejected and the destitute, they were confronted with the extent of their own alienation, the unimaginable dimensions of their own poverty.”
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