suffice it to say i think social democratic politics can only aspire to do as much as freud said of psychoanalysis, turn "hysterical misery into common unhappiness"
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and yet here we sit, in the realm of bathos
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sitting in a lukewarm bathos
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Sounds like a romantic idea so late 1700s to now with one of the people who write philosophy. Often people unite the Sublime with Pathos, for the right type of mindset can turn our suffering experiences into some form of "transformation" greater than the sum of its parts.
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So if I were to guess Jeet it was perhaps Friedrich Schiler? I am no expert and I haven't read even read what I am referencing but if I recall Schiler wrote the two essays on "The Pathetic (aka Pathos), The Sublime, and the Tragic." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schiller/ …
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