We care about nothing anymore because we are forced to live as though we don't. To truly care about our privacy, or the environment, or the future of anything we ought to hold dear would terrify and alienate us, because we are compelled to be implicated in its destruction.
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Modernity is that which makes us all its agents. To love something in our time is to contradict oneself.
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distributed agency is the common thread of Protestantism, capitalism, democracy, etc etc; it's frustrating bc when agency is so broadly distributed you're always reminded of the fact that you can do SOMETHING and the something you can do is always pitifully impotent
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you are simultaneously culpable for your situation (because you contribute to it daily) and mostly powerless to change it
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