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by Matteo Scopel

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Trouble in the middle

13/07/2024

I’m always torn between two dimensions. One involves my position in this world, its meaninglessness, my mortality, the veil of daily illusions beyond which I always strive to see, with scarse success. The other involves the world as a collectively constituted thing: justice, solidarity, a better future. Laozi and Marx drag me in two opposite directions, figuratively speaking. One denies the truth of the other.

Sometimes I think I have found a balance. A few weeks (or months, or hours) later I find out that, in the effort of satisfying both demands, I have not committed to either.

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