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AniseAbyss on Oct 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party

Sounds like any other politician.

I sometimes wonder: is idealism good knowing that you will be disappointed every single time or is aloof cynicism and sarcasm the way to enlightenment?

Pelic4n on Oct 6, 2021 [–]

My own enlightenment was realizing that neither virtue nor the expectation of virtue was rooted in anything that I should concern myself with.

From Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Virtuous: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm#link2...

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