The subject is torn between two opposite feelings toward his model--the most submissive reverence and the most intense malice. This is the passion we call hatred.
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What distinguishes the human species is that the main threat to our existence is other humans, not the environment.
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The potential for human violence must be continually deferred; this is the "work" of language (and by extension culture), its original, ethical function.
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this criticism misses the whole point of consumption, which is to distinguish oneself. We cannot all be the best, but we can each be different; this is the meaning of the modern valorization of self-expression, the omnipresent aestheticization of our existence.