Civilisation and its Discontents
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Civilisation and its Discontents
Sigmund Freud once observed that a civilisation is built upon the suppression of instinctual drives. One could equally say it’s built on illusion—the illusion of proportionality, restraint, neat categories and reliable boundaries. We imagine that wars are orderly affairs, governed by laws that can distinguish clearly between what is necessary and what is criminal, between aggressor and victim, between the justified death and the senseless slaugh…
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