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Somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood..
The Economic Man of White Collar led Mills to formulate a parallel cultural variant: “the cheerful robot.” To such an anti-person, history was little more than a blind drift of incomprehensible forces, which, he mechanically reasoned, obeyed the classic law of Fate (“Whatever is, must therefore be”).
I'm not even a whole person anymore. Maybe not even a half person. I'm a negative person, an anti-person. I'm the opposite of everything human.
We must create a civilization that includes science and technique on our terms established through their resymbolization. It will help transform the antipersons we have become into persons living lives enriched by what discipline-based approaches can contribute within their limits, but not enslaved by the cults of the fact, efficiency, growth, and disembodied communal and individual life.
[…] these antipeople are demonized rhetorically as the antithesis of the people […]
There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!
If a person shook hands with an antiperson, both would be annihilated in a shower of gamma ray greetings.
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Antiperson means Somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood..
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The Economic Man of White Collar led Mills to formulate a parallel cultural variant: “the cheerful robot.” To such an anti-person, history was little more than a blind drift of incomprehensible forces, which, he mechanically reasoned, obeyed the classic law of Fate (“Whatever is, must therefore be”).
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