Ego is a rat on sinking ship of being.

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[castlesandmedievals]

[dreamstars]

By Kaparetti

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Martha Argerich

Ravel, Concerto for piano and orchestra in G major (II. Adagio assai)

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detail from emily dickinson’s herbarium circa 1839-1846

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Stanko Abadzic

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Stanko Abadzic

[retroscifiart]

David Cronenberg and William S Burroughs on the set of The Naked Lunch (1991)

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Sophia Elizabeth

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Larry Clark

1970

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Bartolomeo Veneto - Portrait idéalisé de Lucrèce Borgia, vers 1520

Francfort, Städel Museum

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Charles SINCLAIR

ca. 1970

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Katsushika Hokusai

Breaking Waves, Edo Period, 1847

ink and colour on silk

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Man Ray (American | 1890 - 1976)

Standing Nude, 1937

[sun-death]

One cannot say that the revolution had taken aim at the first two privileged estates; rather it took aim at the little monarchies of the estates in general. But if the estates and their tyranny were broken (the king too was only a king of estates, not a citizen-king), the individuals freed from the inequality of the estates were left. Were they now supposed to be without estate and “going wild,” no longer bound by any estate (status), without a common bond? No, because the third estate had declared itself a nation only in order not to remain an estate beside other estates, but to become the sole estate. This sole estate is the nation, the “state” (status). What had the individual now become? A political Protestant, because he had come into direct connection with his god, the state. He was no longer, as an aristocrat, in the monarchy of the nobility; as a craftsman, in the monarchy of the guild; but like all, he acknowledged and recognized only one lord, the state, as whose servants they received the equalizing title of honor, “citizen.”

Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property (trans. Wolfi Landstreicher)

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