Directing religious expectations toward earthly life can make culture cease to oppress

Evidence

It does make a difference, to know that one depends on one’s own strength alone. One learns, then, to use this strength properly … By withdrawing all its expectations from the other world, and concentrating all the energy liberated in this way on its earthly life, [humanity] may be able to ensure that life will become bearable for all and that culture will no longer oppress any. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 151

Categorization

• XREF: This is Freud’s actual 1927 ‘The Future of an Illusion’ passage that Horkheimer positioned himself toward — the book gives the raw quote Horkheimer half-shared. — connects to: Religious intensity can function as displacement for stalled life prospects — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 629; Refusing eternal life can bless the land and make it evergreen — , A Year of World Stories, 11509; People will forgo material political gains to preserve their religious beliefs (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious intensity can function as displacement for stalled life prospects #qualifies (0.78) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 629
• Refusing eternal life can bless the land and make it evergreen #exemplifies (0.75) — , A Year of World Stories, 11509
• People will forgo material political gains to preserve their religious beliefs #qualifies (0.75)