"For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society)."

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Source : "Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society". Book by Merold Westphal, 1987.

Merold Westphal

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“Populism is dangerous.”
“Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.”
“It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.”
“The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.”
“Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.”
“I lay in bed at night by myself and Iâ€™m totally okay, and thatâ€™s so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didnâ€™t have a boyfriend.”
“If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.”
“While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.”

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