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School and money desires are examples of manipulated freedom: students think they are freely pursuing college, money, and happiness, but have been tricked into creating the world desired by the powers.
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School and money desires are examples of manipulated freedom: students think they are freely pursuing college, money, and happiness, but have been tricked into creating the world desired by the powers.
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"They have power but they don't have imagination. Okay. So, they need to trick us into wanting to create the world they want us..."
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"That's what my mother really wants. You've been tricked. Okay. That's how the world works. So, it's really easy. Just say to yourself I'm..."
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"...adding up and it's coming to the point where your internal social pressures are becoming unbearable and you're facing an economic collapse at home..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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