There is a beautiful pitilessness at the heart of both books.
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Rather, I want to highlight the astonishing pitilessness that lies at the heart of his vision.
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To be "anti love," as Frances declares herself, is as ideologically satisfying as it is emotionally untenable, a weak position that Bobbi pounces on with startling pitilessness.
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But, most of the time, decency and morality seem almost futile and are certainly useless against the incessant violence and pitilessness that emerge in scene after scene in the book.
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Lurking amid the crowd of avatars is the proto-fascist Nietzsche—the proponent of pitilessness, hardness, and the will to power who is cited approvingly by such far-right gurus as Alain de Benoist, Richard Spencer, and Aleksandr Dugin.
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The six petals represent the following modes of consciousness, also known as vrittis: affection, pitilessness, feeling of all- destructiveness, delusion, disdain, and suspicion. Svadishtana is often associated with pleasure, sense of oneself, relationships, sensuality and procreation. Its element is water and its colour is orange. It is blocked by Guilt.
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Below are the Vrittis associated with each of the Tantric Chakras: # Muladhara: greatest joy, natural pleasure, delight in controlling passion, and blissfulness in concentration. # Swadhisthana: affection, pitilessness, feeling of all-destructiveness, delusion, disdain and suspicion. # Manipura: spiritual ignorance, thirst, jealousy, treachery, shame, fear, disgust, delusion, foolishness and sadness. # Anahata: lustfulness, fraudulence, indecision, repentance, hope, anxiety, longing, impartiality, arrogance, incompetency, discrimination and defiance.
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The presence of Kratos and Bia but absence of Nike and Zelos indicates the play's tyrannical portrayal of Zeus, since Kratos and Bia represent the more tyrannical aspects of authority. Kratos in particular represents what Ian Ruffell calls "the kind of uncomplicated thug for whom despotic regimes offer countless job opportunities." He enforces the power of Zeus through physical brutality and pitilessness. Bia, though present in the scene, does not have any lines; only Kratos speaks.
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