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The true paradox of human freedom is that we are most ourselves when we are most constrained by the necessity of our circumstances.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843)

3w ago

The true paradox of human existence is that we are condemned to be free; we are forced to choose, and yet there is no certain ground on which to base our choices.

4w ago

The true paradox of human existence is that we are condemned to be free; we are responsible for what we make of ourselves, yet we perpetually seek to escape this responsibility through bad faith and self-deception.

4w ago

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is an affront.

1mo ago

3quarksdaily.com

Your Fellow Americans: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

Human behavior can never be made entirely rational, because the drive for freedom resists all systems. As Jack Nicholson says in Easy Rider, "Don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are."

3mo ago

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a form of rebellion.

3mo ago

themarginalian.org

Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement.

3mo ago

3quarksdaily.com

Two New Comedies Try to Make Sex on Campus Funny Again

And there is no setting more emblematic of freedom—and its discontents—than the campus, where tenure is supposed to protect the intellectual liberty of faculty and students living independently for the first time try on new ideas and identities.

3mo ago

platformer.news

Inside the backlash to the AI war machine

He felt the new contract wasn't true to the promise of tech: "This isn't what we came to the Valley to do. We came to build tech that makes people free!"

3mo ago

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