Any existence without freedom is a kind of death.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? Sounds like something I would heartily agree with. In fact, I do agree with the essence of it. The problem is that it’s actually meaningless, in a universal sense, without first defining ‘freedom.’
How many people can honestly say that they spend their lives doing exactly what they want, when they want? How many of us can say that we live lives totally untouched by bureaucracy, laws, forms of state control, familial responsibility and/or corporate exigency?
So what is freedom exactly? If the above quotation is taken literally, we’re all dead.
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