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Zettai mujunteki jikodoitsu.

Thank you. The events of the last few weeks reminded me of that obscure force you both saw with such clarity; which is and it is not, and must be opposed.

“Every society known to history is a global society, every culture a cosmological order.” (Marshall Sahlins, Goodbye to Tristes Tropes, p.489)

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Aug 10·edited Aug 10Author

For those who are wondering:

Zettai mujunteki jikodoitsu = absolute contradictory self-identity or unity of opposites.

“This world of historical reality, wherein we are born, act and die, must be, when logically seen, something like the contradictory self-identity of the many and the one. I have come to this point after many years of pondering” (Nishida Kitaro Collected Works).

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