Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be too self-indulgent to quote from the book itself. In the Table of Contents, under Chapter 7: The Operations, are the following procedures...
...inquest into the permanent. People might abandon the idea of suffering through life to build a permanent monument. They might adopt the idea of enjoying and participating in the humility towards something else but oneself. This might be possible only after a socialist revolution where self could be rejected for community. Exploding buildings may help the transition...
Finally, people on the Left should take advantage of attacks against imperialist institutions to explain the function of those institutions. A self-indulgent criticism of all tactics but one's own is usually a retreat rather than an advance...
...amendments offered by the Coop shift virtually all decision-making power from the stockholders, who are self-appointed, to the directors, who would more than ever represent the membership. The directors instead of the "trustee" stockholders would set the rebate rate, for example. While continuing to hold the 500 shares of Coop stock in trust, the stockholders will become no more than a nominating board for the directors...
Eventually Sontag discovers that the Vietnamese politeness is utterly unlike American social conventions, which hide the inner self. She writes that their sincerity is "a mode of ethical aspiration." Similarly, despite the way Americans are trained to discredit heroism, she realizes that the nobility and bravery of the Vietnamese are as real as they seem...