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HOW CAN YOU LIKE AN ETHOSHEAVY NOVEL, BUT DESPISE THE IDEOLOGY BASED ON THAT ETHOS, OR CONVERSELY, HOW CAN YOU DESPISE THE IDEOLOGY BASED ON THE ETHOS ON WHICH A NOVEL THAT YOU LIKE IS BASED?

READ THIS:

>You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man’s sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

>You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I am the man who has granted you your wish.

>What the hell happened to that collective creative endeavour that was going on a day or two ago?

NATURE HAPPENED.

WHO IS JIM HOLT?

>MUH EGO.
>MUH MONEY.

"PREMISES".

>>4347312

NOT EVERY POST MERITS AN IMAGE.

>>4336809

I MEAN "YOU".

>I'm feeling pretty misanthropic. Which doesn't seem fair to the billions of people that I've never met

WHY DO YOU FEEL COMPELLED TO PROJECT SYMPATHY, OR EMPATHY, TOWARD AN IMAGINARY "MASS" OF PEOPLE?

IT IS RIDICULOUS & ABSURD, BESIDE TRITE.

DO YOU NOT SEE THE IRONY IN YOUR POST? YOU CLAIM TO "FEEL MISANTHROPIC" WHILST EXHIBITING AN ATTITUDE THAT PROVOKES "MISANTHROPIC" SENSIBILITIES, IN THE NEXT SENTENCE.

YOU ARE NOT MISANTHROPIC; YOU ARE JUST AN IDIOTIC "HIGHSCHOOLER" OR COLLEGE "FRESHMAN".

>>4300006

THOSE ARE SUPERFICIAL DIFFERENCES; THEIR RESPECTIVE PRINCIPLES DERIVE FROM THE SAME SOURCE; HUMAN NOBILITY.

DO YOU NOT COMPREHEND THE MEANING OF THE WORD "COMPLEMENT"?