>Martin writes:
>"Come off it. Beliefs are unavoidable, and unsubstantiated ones at
>that. I believe in the power of evil and the evil of power and my
>beliefs are often challenged."
>
>They might be unavoidable, but what would be the point of worship or
>exaltation?...as Wallace Stevens would have us do...
<http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/western.php>
From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slavoj Zizek
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So, when we are bombarded by claims that in our post-ideological cynical era nobody believes in the proclaimed ideals, when we encounter a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs and accepts social reality the way it really is, one should always counter such claims with the question "OK, but where is the fetish that enables you to (pretend to) accept reality 'the way it is'?" "Western Buddhism" is such a fetish.
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