Flight from one’s situation is itself an assumption of that situation
Evidence
And we shall note as Heidegger did (although the expressions “authentic” and “unauthentic” which he employs are dubious and insincere because of their implicit moral content) that the attitude of refusal and of flight which remains always possible is despite itself the free assumption of what it is fleeing. Thus the bourgeois makes himself a bourgeois by denying that there are any classes, just as the worker makes himself a worker by asserting that classes exist and by realizing through his revolutionary activity his “being-in-a-class.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1241
Categorization
- XREF: This refusal-as-assumption thesis recurs in Beauvoir’s and later in Fanon’s account of how the colonized’s self-assertion reproduces the colonial frame. — connects to: Flight into contemplation masks a refusal to face worldly ambiguity