Judging From The Ugly And Repugnant Things

Fashion Is The Playing Area For Individuals That Lack Interior Autonomy And Need More Support Points, But Who Nonetheless Feel The Need To Stand Out, To Be Paid Attention To And Be Considered Apart From The Rest Fashion Elevates The Insignificant By Making It In The Representative Of A Totality, The Particular Incarnation Of A Common Spirit. Its Function Is To Make Possible The Kind Of Social Obedience Which Is At The Same Time Individual Differentiation It Is The Mixing Of Submission And The Feeling Of Domination That Is In Action Here.

The Individual Has Become A Mere Cog In An Enormous Organization Of Things And Powers Which Tear From His Hands All Progress, Spirituality, And Value In Order To Transform Them From Their Subjective Form Into The Form Of A Purely Objective Life.

For, To Be A Stranger Is Naturally A Very Positive Relation; It Is A Specific Form Of Interaction.

For The Division Of Labor Demands From The Individual An Ever More One-sided Accomplishment, And The Greatest Advance In A One-sided Pursuit Only Too Frequently Means Dearth To The Personality Of The Individual.

Secrecy Involves A Tension Which, At The Moment Of Revelation, Finds Its Release.