“Everyone is entitled to know everything.” (But this is a false slogan of a false era; far greater in value is the forfeited right of people not to know, not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life has no need for this excessive and burdening flow of information.) (Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart, Commencement Address At Harvard, June 8, 1978)

a) the need to have more and more of everything (of youth, of time, of pleasure, of stuff, of money and, especially, of attention) is founded on the “split” logic of the giants and the gods. Each will have no less than everything; each will concede to the other no right to anything. Theirs is the logic of the “excessive” and it is grounded in particular determinations of “true reality“.

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