Merold Westphal (1940)
but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society
p. 50
Kierkegaard’s Critique of Reason and Society (1992)
“To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
— David Foster Wallace, book The Pale King
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