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Tweeting the Dialectic of Enlightenment again, word by word and day by day, through the era of Trumpism. **Human not bot; Likes are invitations to engage**(12)

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They still had about them a quality of *mana*; they embodied nature as a universal power. #DoE

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The essence of the gods is not exhausted by individuality. #DoE

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The scorn of the ancients for their all-too-human gods left their core untouched. #DoE

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Contrary to the Jewish *Genesis*, the representations of creation in which the world emerges from the primal mother, the cow or the egg, are symbolic. #DoE

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Inexhaustibility, endless renewal, and the permanence of what they signify are not only attributes of all symbols but their true content. #DialecticofEnlightenment

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Nature as self-repetition is the core of the symbolic: an entity or process which is conceived as eternal because it is reenacted again and again in the guise of the symbol. #DoE

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They, like magic rites, refer to the repetitive cycle of nature. #DialecticofEnlightenment

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This function was transferred to myths. #DoE

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As the hieroglyphs attest, the word originally also had a pictorial function. #DoE

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The teachings of the priests were symbolic in the sense that in them sign and image coincided. #DoE

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The blindfold over the eyes of Justitia means not only that justice brooks no interference but that it does not originate in freedom. #DoE

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Now equivalence itself becomes a fetish. #DialecticofEnlightenment

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Earlier, fetishes had been subject to the law of equivalence. #DoE

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Indeed, human beings atoned for this very step by worshipping that to which previously, like all other creatures, they had been merely subjected. #DoE

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The step from chaos to civilization, in which natural conditions exert their power no longer directly but through the consciousness of human beings, changed nothing in the principle of equivalence. #DoE

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the Scales (Libra) held by Zeus, which symbolize the justice of the entire patriarchal world, point back to mere nature. #DoE

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Just as the constellation Gemini, like all the other symbols of duality, refers to the inescapable cycle of nature; just as this cycle itself has its primeval sign in the symbol of the egg from which those later symbols are sprung, / #DoE

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The imagery of myths, too, can be traced back without exception to natural conditions. #DialecticofEnlightenment

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Equivalence is his instrument; and equivalence regulates punishment and reward within civilization. #DoE

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The shaman wards off a danger with its likeness. #DoE