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The Capacity For People To Kid Themselves Is Huge. Living On Illusions Or Delusions, And The Re-establishing Of These Illusions Or Delusions Requires A Big Effort To Keep Them From Being Seen Through. But A Very Old Idea Is At Work Behind Our Current State Of Affairs: Enantiodromia, Or The Greek Notion Of Things Turning Into Their Opposite.

Character Forms A Life Regardless Of How Obscurely That Life Is Lived And How Little Light Falls On It From The Stars.

Calling Can Refer Not Only To Ways Of Doing - Meaning Work - But Also To Ways Of Being.

Yes, We Worship The Idea Of The "self-made Man" - Otherwise We'd Go On Strike Against Bill Gates Having All That Money! We Worship That Idea.

Of Course, A Culture As Manically And Massively Materialistic As Ours Creates Materialistic Behavior In Its People, Especially In Those People Who've Been Subjected To Nothing But The Destruction Of Imagination That This Culture Calls Education, The Destruction Of Autonomy It Calls Work, And The Destruction Of Activity It Calls Entertainment.