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Lizzie Sanduleac
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While “normal” individuals may regard such anxieties… as irrational, these feelings are more the result of emotional supersensitivity than irrationality.
Why is everyone not always in a state of high ontological insecurity, given the enormity of such potential existential troubles?
"Normal" individuals… receive an emotional inoculation which protects against the ontological anxieties… [from] the mother.
— Jun 30, 2026 07:08AM
Why is everyone not always in a state of high ontological insecurity, given the enormity of such potential existential troubles?
"Normal" individuals… receive an emotional inoculation which protects against the ontological anxieties… [from] the mother.
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Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 119 of 200
Friendship has been transformed by modernity.
… honour is replaced by loyalty which has no other support save personal affection, and sincerity is replaced by what we can call authenticity: the requirement that the other be open and well-meaning.
A friend is not someone who always speaks the truth, but someone who protects the emotional well-being of the other.
— Jul 02, 2026 04:50AM
… honour is replaced by loyalty which has no other support save personal affection, and sincerity is replaced by what we can call authenticity: the requirement that the other be open and well-meaning.
A friend is not someone who always speaks the truth, but someone who protects the emotional well-being of the other.
Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 112 of 200
Trust in abstract systems is the condition of time-space distanciation and of the large areas of security in day-to-day life which modern institutions offer as compared to the traditional world.
Yet… trust in abstract systems is not psychologically rewarding in the way in which trust in persons is.
— Jul 02, 2026 04:21AM
Yet… trust in abstract systems is not psychologically rewarding in the way in which trust in persons is.
Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 95 of 200
“A faith in the caretaker's love is the essence of that leap to commitment which basic trust—and all forms of trust thereafter—presumes.”
— Jun 30, 2026 07:13AM
Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 84 of 200
You can’t avoid working with abstract systems nowadays.
“Individuals in premodern settings, in principle and in practice, could ignore the pronouncements of priests, sages, and sorcerers and get on with the routines of daily activity. But this is not the case in the modern world, in respect of expert knowledge.”
— Jun 30, 2026 02:00AM
“Individuals in premodern settings, in principle and in practice, could ignore the pronouncements of priests, sages, and sorcerers and get on with the routines of daily activity. But this is not the case in the modern world, in respect of expert knowledge.”
Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 55 of 200
“We have not moved beyond modernity but are living precisely through a phase of its radicalisation.”
— Jun 27, 2026 01:16PM
Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 39 of 200
“In science, nothing is certain, and nothing can be proved… In the heart of the world of hard science, modernity floats free.”
— Jun 27, 2026 11:42AM
Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 20 of 200
“The separating of time and space and their formation into standardised, "empty" dimensions… [creates] manifold possibilities of change by breaking free from the restraints of local habits and practices.”
Studying modernity is helping me make sense of my cross-cultural hopscotch.
— Jun 27, 2026 12:22AM
Studying modernity is helping me make sense of my cross-cultural hopscotch.
Lizzie Sanduleac
is on page 3 of 200
The disorientation [we feel]… results primarily from the sense many of us have of being caught up in a universe of events we do not fully understand, and which seems in large part outside of our control.
We have to look again at the nature of modernity itself which… has been poorly grasped in the social sciences hitherto.
— Jun 26, 2026 07:23AM
We have to look again at the nature of modernity itself which… has been poorly grasped in the social sciences hitherto.