... is no darkness but it was merely a prison cell in which the light is never turned off. Here there is a metaphor for our encounter with nothingness. The encounter with nothingness is a term Barrett uses as a way of referencing the tremendous decline of Christianity within western culture and the concerns he has with the consequences of the decline of Christianity. He believed that, with the abolition of the system of symbols/images ... he is unable to find the will to stand back up again in the face of overwhelming reality "He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party. In the old da...

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