freedom

  • “Humans had set these machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary self-dom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.” Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune “What does the billboard say? ‘Come and play, come and play Forget about the movement’” Rage Against the Machine, Freedom We sojourn in a desert

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  • A Contraposition of Ethics

    “We are living in a particular phase of history: freedom itself is bringing forth compulsion and constraint. The freedom of Can generates even more coercion than the disciplinarian Should, which issues commandments and prohibitions. Should has a limit. In contrast, Can has none. Thus, the compulsion entailed by Can is unlimited. And so, we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation. Technically, freedom means the

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