Quotes by John Carroll

John Carroll

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

Determination

Determined

Ideology

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Adventure

Lust

Play

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.

Bored

Discipline

Past

Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. … The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.

Acquisition

Excellence

Goal

Dostoevsky’s underground man … observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. … He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.

Children

Men

Strong

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts ‘from above’.

People

Thinking

Weapons

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Ants

Desire

Goal

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual’s interests.

Order

Political

School

If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, … all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the ‘fact’, must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.

Men

Return

Taken

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Children

Intention

Necks

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Acquisition

Adventure

Affair

Ambition

Analysis

Animal

Ants

Arguing

Attachment

Beautiful

Believe

Bending

Bored

Boredom

Boys

Character

Children

Christ

Christian

Comfort

Commitment

Community

Cutting

Degrees

Desire

Destiny

Destruction

Determination

Determined

Discipline

Economic Models

Eden

Evil

Excellence

Expression

Facts

Fiction

Gains

Garden

Giving

Goal

Groups

Harsh

Hero

Ideas

Ideological

Ideology

Important

Independent

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Quotes by John Carroll

John Carroll

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts ‘from above’.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual’s interests.

If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, … all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the ‘fact’, must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

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