Modern theories, whose very purpose is to obscure human nature and thus instill in people an excessive belief in themselves, perpetuate this constant obfuscation. This constant obfuscation draws upon Simone de Beauvoir's thoughts on human life. Constant obfuscation, uprooting, infantilization… People must be told they are strong in order to weaken them, to push them to succumb to all their desires in order to enslave them. Uproot them so they can believe they are the sole masters of their destiny. Vanity and pride will do the rest.
“It is only insofar as he thinks (…), insofar as he is a ‘he’ and a ‘someone,’ that man can, in the full reality of his concrete being, live in this breach of time between the past and the future.”*
* Hannah Arendt, The Crisis of Culture .
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