"We live in a society" -Knausgaard, My Struggle, Volume 6, page 835
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2. Figures like Jünger resigned themselves to a quiet, personal struggle for freedom—but they didn’t stop fighting. Their work still inspires, comforts,& enlightens people today. This alone, even if the struggle for freedom is ultimately lost, seems to be a justification.
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3. If nothing else, you can be a scribe or chronicler of a great decline or cataclysm. This is the role Peter Hitchens has adopted, & he seems to relish it. If anything survives, it might be looked back on as we look on Juvenal today—assuming you tell the truth, so making satire.
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4. None of these stances require involvement with a mass movement or the ugly theatre of politics. But the act of observing can itself have some influence on events—or so I like to think.
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