Whatever my queasiness about laughing at a head case, I couldn't help myself from thrilling to Franco's timing, his relish, his swan dive
into an egotism that has no bottom.
But, too often, that morphs
into egotism.
Not exact matches
In fact, Niebuhr taught that the
egotism of the individual only becomes more powerful when collected
into a group, to the extent that an individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.
Since we can't even guarantee that enlightened
egotism will save the world from a nuclear doomsday, what will prevent the earth from turning
into a gigantic feedlot for 40 or more billion people?
This is where the phrase «the personal is political» has taken us:
into a world of anxious, narcissistic
egotism, in which identity groups attempt to take ownership of issues while silencing those who appear to attack their identity.
The way I see it is that Daft Punk didn't put any real effort
into making the album and that it was basically full of
egotism.
What begins as a simple statement against celebrity
egotism snowballs
into something larger when Simone's «performance» earns her huge acclaim and even bigger stardom, and suddenly Taransky is forced to perpetuate the illusion that Simone is an actual person.
Of course, it could be that we here in Canada or, indeed, here in Toronto, are somehow perverse — or just different from our American sibs, lacking, perhaps, that «implicit
egotism» that would have, well, made me
into a farmer.