To slow down. To go screenless. To be present. These have become bourgeois consumer experiences. Optimized rather than inhabited. And here we are, quantifying our own rejection of quantification, tracking time spent offline as if presence itself were a productivity metric.

Capitalism replaces collectivity with the ideology of hard work, individual responsibility, and isolated consumption.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself.

- Joseph Conrad

capitalism is insidious because it does not require belief. Only participation. And exhaustion.

this is so surreal and absurd

Woman, being the Other,
in the most radical sense,
in the sexual relationship,
in relation to what can be
said of the unconscious,
woman is that which has
a relationship to that Other.
Jacques Lacan, Encore

Sartre, by contrast, comes from the tradition of Descartes and to this tradition remains faithful. From Heidegger’s perspective, Sartre’s strategy of affirming the priority of existence over essence is a by-product of the tradition of Renaissance humanism which wishes to assert the importance of man as the highest and most splendid of finite beings. Sartrean existence refers to the fact that a human is whereas Heidegger’s ek-sistence refers to the way with which Dasein is thrown into a world of referential relations and as such Dasein is claimed by Being to guard its truth. Sartre, following Descartes, thinks of the human as a substance producing or sustaining entities, Heidegger on the contrary thinks of the human as a passivity which accepts the call of Being. “Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being” (Heidegger 1993:245). The Heideggerian priority then is Being, and Dasein’s importance lies in its receptiveness to the call of Being.

"Existentialism" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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"In the depths of the abyss, where shadows loom and secrets lie dormant, one may excavate the depths of knowledge. Yet, upon ascending, the weight of earthly limitations persists, grounding us in our mortal existence. To fly, one must transcend not only the abyss but also the confines of our very being."

- Kenji Siratori