Or better that we must find now better ways in order to profane. If to profane means to return to common use of man that which has been separated to the sphere of the sacred or of consumption or spectator we could say that the capitalist religion in its extreme phase or stage is created something absolutely unprofitable, which can never be given back to use.
So I have to stop here in order to respect our limit of time. Let me just say, in a kind of semi-ironic, or better semi-paraodic, but finally serious statement, that the profanation of the unprofitable is the political task of the coming generation.
Les Liens du Mariage / Marriage Bonds’ (2002) by Gilbert Garcin⠀⠀⠀⠀
(via Baba Ram Dass, Proponent of LSD Turned New Age Guru, Dies at 88 - The New York Times)
Life Engineering, Kurt Vonnegut
What we must work on, it seems to me, is not so much to liberate our desires but to make ourselves infinitely more susceptible to pleasure.
Foucault
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