Advanced civilization resents the merely given, the unproduced and unchangeable

Evidence

The problem considered here is one of time. Those Negroes and white men will be disalienated who refuse to let themselves be sealed away in the materialized Tower of the Past. For many other Negroes, in other ways, disalienation will come into being through their refusal to accept the present as definitive. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 826 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Disalienation comes from refusing the tower of the past and the fixed present — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 826; Human freedom to begin new things resists the tyranny of logical deduction

Related

• Disalienation comes from refusing the tower of the past and the fixed present (similarity 0.84)
• Human freedom to begin new things resists the tyranny of logical deduction (similarity 0.80)
• Worshipping the past makes the present a futile imitation of it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Disalienation comes from refusing the tower of the past and the fixed present #expands (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 826
• Human freedom to begin new things resists the tyranny of logical deduction #expands (0.75)