«However one answers this question [of how individuals secede from
habit, making themselves and their worlds more explicit] one thing is
clear: it is only in this separation that the human in advanced
civilization discovers itself as the animal that is split, mirrored
and placed beside itself, that cannot remain as it was. Difference
within humans is now primed as difference between humans. It divides
'societies' into classes of which the theorists of class `society'
know nothing. The upper class comprises those who hear the imperative
that catapults them out of their old life, and the other classes all
those who have never heard or seen any trace of it -- normally people
who are quick to admire, and thus make it clear that higher efforts
can exclusively be a matter for the admired, but certainly not the
admirers.» --Peter Sloterdijk, "Cur Homo Artista: On the ease of the
improbable", page 191 of "You Must Change Your Life"
Gathatoulie
And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.
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