"Lightness or weightlessness refers to a state in which the effects of gravitational forces disappear. In his psychological novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera extrapolates the lightness-weight dichotomy to our lives, interpreting each term as an attitude or way of engaging with our life experience. In this context, weight represents everything that conditions our development: moral, ethical, social, religious, and ideological constructs. Conversely, lightness symbolizes the liberated state of the individual, free from the constraints of any dogma: the triumph of Nietzschean nihilism. The current era echoes this postmodern…
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