Saturday, June 01, 2019

enjoy the fruits of one civilization while extolling the values of another

For at the heart of it is the cynical wish to enjoy the fruits of one civilization while extolling the values of another. The ground is automatically prepared for all manner of hypocrisy.

And in the religious state, as in those countries where two currencies ate in circulation — one official, but valueless, the other illegal but real — the idea of value itself becomes dist0Lted.

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