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The Triumph of House Slippers: On Renunciation of the World

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Home today is more than just a refuge; it's something more: a space that displaces and replaces the world, a cocoon that makes breaking out unnecessary. Almost anything can be brought into our home. Why then go out and expose ourselves? Like Oblomov, who was never able to rise from the couch to embrace life, will we become faded, listless creatures?

The purpose of this essay is to explore the mentality of abandoning active life, to understand its philosophical roots and historical contours. Never before has the tension between the desire to wander and the taste for solitude been so intense. And forced confinement, the true nightmare of recent years (the pandemic era), seems to have given way for many to voluntary self-isolation. We face not the tyranny of health, but the tyranny of sedentary living: will slippers and robes become its new attributes?
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