Donating their bodies to science: even in death, seekers after secular redemption.
The taboo on “value judgments”: a kind of psychic Hobbesianism—one that, repudiating power and the contestation of power, attempts to create an equality among its members by externalizing what it hates as a supervening source: not a visible sovereign, but an abstract, negative regulative principle, the blank space of taboo, that the frenzied ones now vie with each other in opposing.
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