Gems 10.108

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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word “useful” an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.”
–Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

An artful, short video that discusses de Beauvoir’s labels: the Serious Man, the Sub-Man, the Passionate Man, and the Nihilist, among others, and why harming another person is essentially the same as harming ourselves.

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