“It is clear that a retreat from the social, based largely on the experience of defeat and consequent resignation, promotes the personal as the only possible terrain of authenticity.”

The Mass Psychology of Misery
Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994)

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American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author 1943

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