R.I.P. Michael....
Here's a very interesting collection of short pieces by different people (journalists, writers, academics, activists, politicians).
Underlying most of them is a critique of the narrow view of the self or the individual fostered by the market, the distortion it creates in how we view our relation to others and to the world.
In particular, Mark Vernon on friendship:
[Aristotle's definition of a friend]: "another self":
1. the other self remains 'other'..."unlike erotic love, in which there is a powerful desire to meld with the other, to become wholly dependent upon another...friendship wants the friend to be himself or herself"
2. the other self is a reflection of your own self. a mirror by which to see oneself more clearly. the ability to connect.
3. I-we: the other is distinct, different, but also part of one's life, and from this emerges a totally new way of seeing and being in the world.
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