So Chabad Lubavich, not B’nai B’rith: the Messianic-renewal option, not the trouble-nihilistic option. Which means that the frontal ideological torment of physical and spiritual self-destruction will yield to any degree the field of temptation of the tribalistic-techotriumphalistic dreams of "return to greatness." Thus, it may be a small little crucial to have an open opposition to ad hoc anti-values in the close future, but it will be much more crucial to stay vigilant about inexpensive timeless values.
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The fact that broad masses inactive let themselves to be caught on the levity of tributary-protective populism is simply a disappointing observation, but this disappointment almost compensates for the fact that they are increasingly reacting allergicly to any recommendations they received by "celebrites", "pop culture stars", media talking heads and another peculiarly tacky representatives of professional caste fools. The erstwhile does not show well the knowing of the masses, but the second proves that there are certain limits to the high-pitched senselessness which most people cannot for a minute with a clear conscience.
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The worst prospects for freedom are spread in a planet where the maxim of “do what you are told” is popular.
The erstwhile can be reconciled with voluntary discipline and gaining experience within a freely recognized hierarchy, which can service to increasingly wisely direct their freedom and improve the effectiveness of the resulting actions. But the second only exposes freedom to ridicule, identifying it at best with frivolity not caring for its consequences, and at worst with suicidal rebellion against the nature of reality.
In another words, even under the force of Spartan rigor, freedom of will can be maintained, but on the basis of “emancipatory disinvolvement” 1 can only be enslaved with the most embarrassing chain: the conviction of his own omnipotence.
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Love is forgiveness requiring reparation, happiness requiring sacrifice and reliability requiring self-denial. The infantile parody of love, on the another hand, is simply a permissive indulgence in same - absolution, acquittal to same - pity, and uncritical to complacency. The first is the foundation of striving for perfection, and the second is the surest way to lose. And since in the final account all moral choices come down to this one, there is no more valuable cognition than that which allows the first to be distinguished from the attrap.
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The essential condition to treat animals as subjects is not to treat them as household members, the essential condition to treat computers as tools is not to treat them as intellects, the essential condition to treat the earth as a host is not to treat them as mothers, and the essential condition to treat man as neighbour is not to treat him as God. Attempts to equalize unequal things undermine higher things and lie down lower things, attempts to blur the boundaries between different phenomena in terms of quality close all phenomena within the limits of inequities, and attempts to destruct inherent divisions inevitably destruct those who effort to divide them.
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No 1 has the right to prosperity – everyone has the right to prosecute prosperity. Nobody deserves happiness – everyone deserves only the chance to search happiness. No 1 can trust on mercy in advance – everyone can only gain mercy. And no 1 is credited for their desires—everyone is granted only freedom from individual else's tyranny.
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Liberalism is not relativism, but the anticipation of freely choosing the absolute to which it will serve; not skepticism, but the necessity to take individual work for the effects of his own dogmas; and not nihilism, but awareness of the nihilistic nature of all forms of tyranny.
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
