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Conventions vs. spontaneity. this is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. if you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. one assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. in a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.
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Conventions Vs. Spontaneity. This Is A Dialectical

Susan Sontag
Conventions vs. spontaneity. this is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. if you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. one assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. in a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.
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