Survival through cunning costs the survivor his own inner life.

Evidence

The nimble-witted survives only at the price of his own dream, which he wins only by demystifying himself as well as the powers without. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 352

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Reads as a piece of portable wisdom about the cost of cleverness — the survivor wins his life by hollowing himself out.
• XREF: connects to: Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 349; Security regimes prioritize survival at the cost of becoming ourselves — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 487; Freedom acts through self-influence over one’s own inner life, not just absence of constraints — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 100
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 349; Security regimes prioritize survival at the cost of becoming ourselves — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 487; Freedom acts through self-influence over one’s own inner life, not just absence of constraints — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 100

Broader Connections

• Freedom acts through self-influence over one’s own inner life, not just absence of constraints #complicates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 100