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- Title
The Aspirational Self, or, Canceling Banality!
- Authors
DOMENICO, KIM C.
- Abstract
AUGUST 18, 2023 "These [the social equalizing effects of heaven] are the consolations which the wretched have peculiar to themselves in which they are above the rest of mankind; in other respects they are below them." For the wretched inmates in the gaol in which the vicar of Wakefield was also imprisoned, to whom he preached, the dream of heaven must be real if they were to escape sub-human existence as criminals and be human. Just as liberals scratch their heads over resentful working class peoples' support of the oligarchs whose vicious policies will only increase their wretchedness, radicals of the left cannot fathom why, or for what purpose, a person with a radical political perspective would want religion.
- Subjects
SELF; FATHERS; SELF-portraits; CHRISTMAS cards
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article