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People are weakened by the slack life they lead, by their boundless individualism, by the dreams promoted via television and advertising, and by their virtual experiences. This is what the anthropologist Arnold Gehlen has termed ‘second-hand experiences’ – socio-economic opium.

— Guillaume Faye Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age (2010)

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