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“The updated version of Descartes’s Cogito is ‘I am seen, therefore I am’ – and that the more people who see me, the more I am…”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

tags: modernity, social-networks

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“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.”
― Zygmunt Bauman

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“What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity

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“... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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“Desire and love act at cross purposes. love is a net cast on eternity, desire is a stratagem to be spared the chores of net weaving.

True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

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