Essays on Philosophy and Culture

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There will be no incentive to engage in long-term conflict; only immediate concerns will matter if anything matters. And this shared fate, the hopeless situation of these flowers, will be a vine between them of mutual understanding. The dying world, the crumbling empire, is almost like a burning museum that a crowd gathers around. Sure, each feels the loss, but a part of them is still glad that something has brought them together. Human beings need events to inspire conversation. In the absence of these they will resort to anything, even discussing the weather, and here the tragic gloom of this age provides a kind of shibboleth for the young.

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