>But the practical species-being of our age has simply turned out to be
>the same old collection of snakes skins. It is as if the egotistic man
>(Marx's term) of our age faced with its individual or ego dissolution
>into social power, something greater than itself, did not see the
>fraternity of species-being, but rather saw the abyss.
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There is absolutely nothing in our culture that offers the "fraternity
of species-being" -- not work, not the disintegrating family, not the
nonexistent community. There is nothing but abyss, from which one is
protected by material goods on the material side and by religion on the
psychological side.
j.
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