Because if we don’t start prioritizing the survival of the human species, our individual selfishness will kill us all. That’s irrelevant though- what is relevant here is that some communist writings gave Sublunari an education she wasn’t getting elsewhere, and it made an impact on her.
“Fear of the self” takes us back to that Biblical core idea that humans are born basically bad. We all carry around depravation and violence inside of us. And if we can see others as bad too, it helps us feel comparatively better. It works short term at least, but doesn’t address the core issue of having “terrible” thoughts and feelings.
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