Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
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Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
if adulthood involves settling in to a particular identity, which is bounded by a particular set of roles and relationships, and if youth is, instead, a time in which one is free to continuously reformulate one’s identity, the attempt to sustain that freedom forever can be construed as an attempt to reject adulthood.”
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The mass society’s need for conformity was interpreted as a fascist repression that made the id and its desires for freedom, power, and the erotic dirty.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”
Daisy Alioto • Yearn in Review
The dynamics of the connection between Faye Goddard and Julie Smith tend, those around them find, to resist clear articulation.