Strange Inversion in Relationships – Quote by Allan Bloom

„We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.“

Dr. Alan BloomAllan Bloom reflects on the strange inversion between the social contract and erotic relationships, feeling and contractual bonds.
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Dr. Alan Bloom was a respected cultural scholar who specialized in the significance of art and culture for children.

Allan Bloom examines the tension between emotional community and the increasingly contractual nature of erotic relationships.


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Allan Bloom quote about relationships, social contracts, and erotic connections

Dr. Alan Bloom was a renowned cultural scholar and educator who focused extensively on the role of art in child development and the culture industry. His work highlights how certain media and art forms are tailored specifically toward young audiences.

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"The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros." Allan Bloom
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon quote about the social contract, absolutism, and forceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Neil Postman quote about responsibility in human relationships and online communicationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can." Neil Postman
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Quote image featuring Ingolfur Blühdorn discussing the challenges and disenfranchisement in modern democracy.Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It has long been obvious in the Western tribal countries of democracy that the promises inherent in this concept will probably remain unfulfilled: Politics is losing ground dramatically to the power of the markets; supposedly democratic systems are firmly in the hands of powerfully organized interests and have less and less to do with popular sovereignty - if there ever was any. Social inequality and the disenfranchisement and reification of citizens as mere administrative objects or human resources are advancing inexorably - though every step of disenfranchisement is communicated as emancipatory gain." Ingolfur Blühdorn
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Quote about two forms of power, oppression and seduction, by Gerald HütherCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are, after all, two ways of exercising power, so to speak. One is the old way, the one we all know: oppression. We saw that under Stalinism and the like. And then, here in the West, I’ve come to know another form that I hadn’t really thought about before. That is seduction. Seduction is something truly insidious. Because at least you can defend yourself against paternalism and tyranny. Then you remain a subject. It may crush you; it may kill you. You may have to spend your whole life under terrible conditions. But you remain a subject. You can say: “I am, here I stand, I cannot do otherwise.” Someone who has been seduced stands there and has no idea where they are. They protect their seducers. “Oh, then we can’t take our next vacation on a cruise ship after all. And how are we supposed to manage now that gas keeps getting more expensive?”—that’s how the demands of the seduced person come across. And someone like that will, of course, always contribute to maintaining the system of seduction. And that’s why turning people into the seduced is a much surer way of securing power than oppressing them. The Church, by the way, knew this all along." Gerald Hüther
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