Value is only a human illusion, The Mechanics of Virtue, 246

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I can calculate a view where there is no value, but I cannot experience it.  Can we really claim that the projection we call “value” no longer exists because our projectors cannot help but set it upon the screen of consciousness?  We can calculate the existence of our projectors and thus calculate with confidence that Value is only a human illusion, but we cannot say that we are ever free of this illusion ... or that it is not useful as an illusion ... or that the more correct our claim that there is no value the more guilty we will be of the hypocrisy of seeing value everywhere.

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