From this brilliant portrait of Camille Paglia: Today’s students believe that human happiness is possible through social reform—that utopia is possible. A better understanding of human nature is found in the great works of art and literature, which reveal the tragic view of life.https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1180366616657354752 …
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I don't know about utopia, but do you think that no social reform ever leads to more - or less - happiness? No differences between societies?
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Of course! Social reform is a constant necessity. It is just not leading to an utopia. Existence begets suffering.
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But Paglia's point is probably not that radicalization through lack of education is new, but that the present generation does not have much of a chance to get educated about the principles of a working civilization any more.
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I imagine it has a lot to do with what we're taught about control. Centralized/top-down control is promoted to us as being the only way to get what we want in life. But I think kids understand emergence/decentralization naturally, and only repress that due to conditioning.
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