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And to repeat this excerpt from Jacqueline Rose (The Plague): ‘The evolution of civilization’, Freud wrote in Civilization and its Discontents, ‘is the struggle for life of the human species.’

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I liked your “... used the last gas ....” poem. And this epigraph to Timothy Morton’s “Dark Ecology” from Theodor Adorno: “Progress means: humanity emerges from its spellbound state no longer under the spell of progress as well, itself nature, by becoming aware of its own indigenousness to nature and by halting the mastery over nature through which nature continues its mastery.”

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