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The Football Factory

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“Parce que le seul instinct réel de l’homme, c’est de partir en courant au plus profond de la forêt. Si tel n’était pas le cas, pourquoi s’acharnerait-on autant à nous faire aimer la société, à nous faire entrer dans le crâne le style amoureux et grégaire de la Patrie absolue ? Le divertissement social est un système opérationnel de coutumes visant à minimiser la peur d’être totalement encerclé.”

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“Le sexe est un système stable de formes égoïstes tournant autour de soleil de la vanité. L’esprit d’échange de la promiscuité propose une nouvelle version du mythe fondateur de la démocratie : pratiquer l’exercice de nous supposer égaux doit par définition nous obliger à franchir les barrières de l’activité privée, les pures contingences intimes. Ce n’est que maintenant, dépolitisée de ses carottes théologiques, entièrement froide et pure, que la révolution sexuelle recouvre le sens véritable des révolutions de Copernic – l’instinct conservateur de la vanité en tant que triomphe est esthétique et moral de la démocratie.”

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“Some may feel that no criticism can be made of real religious Faith, and this is true, it is the folly of the faith in dogmatic authority that is at issue really, and needs only the memory of Galileo to serve as an example, though there are countless other examples, particularly in modern political faiths from Liberal laissez-faire to Marxist determinism. In our day it is more the authority of science and reason that has replaced the ecclesiastic authority, though the pendulum is beginning now, in the middle of the twentieth century, to move back towards the equilibrium point, and doubtless, human nature being what it is, will eventually swing to the irrational side, and then back again, and back again, and back again, and back again, until humanity achieves some semblance of permanent balance in its outlook —or even stops being the dupe of external authority.”

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Book:Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism
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“In the clay, there is a tiger and the problem is neither in the question nor is in the text, it is in interpretation. You can listen or read the answer in folk literature and Sufi music. To belong is to have a grammar and in grammar there are exceptions. You can never belong fully except to the gravity of the universe. We belong anyways.”

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Book:Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments
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