Flat souls

Kristeva says that contemporary culture separates affects from language, which leads to a loss of soul. Souls are empty.

To help, our culture offers drugs and entertainment. Drugs flatten experience to a drone; entertainment dazzles momentarily with two-dimensional images.

So do our solutions increase the problem. Flat remedies for flat souls.

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