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The Greater Or Lesser Optimism

by Vito Lucente

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Inspired by my favourite books during my philosophy studies at York University (Toronto) "Civilizations and It's Discontents" and "The Future Of An Illusion" by Sigmund Freud

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"human life has raised itself above its animal status and differs from the life of beasts—and
I scorn to distinguish between culture and civilization—, presents, as we know, two aspects to
the observer. It includes on the one hand all the knowledge and capacity that men have acquired
in order to control the forces of nature and extract its wealth for the satisfaction of human needs,
and, on the other hand, all the regulations necessary in order to adjust the relations of men to one
another and especially the distribution of the available wealth. The two trends of civilization are
not independent of each other: firstly, because the mutual relations of men are profoundly
influenced by the amount of instinctual satisfaction which the existing wealth makes possible;
secondly, because an individual man can himself come to function as wealth in relation to
another one, in so far as the other person makes use of his capacity for work, or chooses him as a
sexual object; and thirdly, moreover, because every individual is virtually an enemy of
civilization, though civilization is supposed to be an object of universal human interest.1 It is
remarkable that, little as men are able to exist in isolation, they should nevertheless feel as a
heavy burden the sacrifices which civilization expects of them in order to make a communal life
possible. Thus civilization has to be defended against the individual, and its regulations,
institutions and commands are directed to that task. They aim not only at effecting a certain
distribution of wealth but at maintaining that distribution; indeed, they have to protect everything
that contributes to the conquest of nature and the production of wealth against men's hostile
impulses. Human creations are easily destroyed, and science and technology, which have built
them up, can also be used for their annihilation. "

Sigmund Freud

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released February 1, 2018
Produced, engineered, vocals and mastering by Vito Lucente

words by Sigmund Freud

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