The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs… — Peter Sloterdijk
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.
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