Freedom: trading order for chaos
To give up order for chaos is to escape. Our urge for freedom drives us from sanity (acceptance of normative …
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I am free, and that is why I am lost
To be free, or wholly liberated, is to have no map upon which to rely. The desire for stability and …
Values guiding freedom
Positive freedom (unrestricted fulfillment) sounds great until the economy, state, book club, or marriage fail. Policies, politeness, and social norms …
Freedom is scaffolding
We err when we consider ideas, like freedom, as rights inherent to the species; we should think of them as …
The pleasure of being already dead
The ultimate freedom is the realization of your death: you are simply pre-dead, an inevitable corpse. Instead of clinging to …
if uniqueness is penultimate, then…
We assume more liberty will allow unique individuality to flourish. But what if freedom primarily promotes libidinal fulfillment, which is …
Contrary individuation counterbalances into stagnation
Our contrariness is our path to sovereign individuation: “You can’t tell me what to do.” Soon no one is in …
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