I do enjoy Carl Jung's poetic turn of phrase.
The adult becomes someone who’s a little better able than the young person to afford to buy big toys. The difference is more quantitative than qualitative.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
The contemporary compulsion to produce robs things of their endurance [Haltbarkeit]: it intentionally erodes duration in order to increase production, to force more consumption. Lingering, however, presupposes things that endure. If things are merely used up and consumed, there can be no lingering. And the same compulsion of production destabilizes
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The decay rate of the practices and perspectives of production and reproduction clicked forward, moving from a rate of intergenerational to generational to intragenerational—that is, from multiple generations, to one lifetime, to the ability to live multiple lives in one lifetime.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Among all my patients in the second half of life – that is to say, over thirty-five – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of the
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