Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or t...hey told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What Marxism was to the society of Economic Man, Calvinism was to that of Intellectual Man: the final, messianic exaggeration of i...ts creed. In both, the belief in the attainment of freedom and equality could only be maintained by sacrificing actual freedom. The doctrine of determination through predestination in Calvinism is parallel to that of determination through the class situation in Marxism. Both abolished actual freedom in existing society to maintain the belief in the reality and imminence of freedom in the coming society. And both collapsed as orders when it was proved that the only society which they could realize was an unfree society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens--and r...eal diseases are useful material.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »