On Freedom
Futures where we move past tired promises of “freedom from”—from established institutions, from regulation, from responsibility—and towards the shared capacity for building “freedom to”—to create, to learn, to struggle, to strengthen collective institutions, to ensure shared security.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
“Men are not free,” he wrote, “if dependent industrially on the arbitrary will of another.” Economic security was a foundation on which one could really be free in a meaningful sense—hence the importance of steady but not oppressive work, of education, time and space for leisure, parks, libraries, and other institutions.
Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Qui dit liberté ne dit pas un mouvement totalement dénué de contraintes ; et ce n’est certainement pas non plus agir de manière totalement aléatoire. Nous prenons souvent à tort les choses qui nous permettent d’être libres – contexte, sens, facticité, situation, orientation générale de notre vie – pour les choses qui nous définissent et nous enlève
... See moreAude de Saint-Loup • Au café existentialiste : La liberté l être & le cocktail à l abricot (French Edition)
And not merely free to choose—since that’s what got me here in the first place—but free to choose the good. If freedom is going to be more than mere freedom from, if freedom is the power of freedom for, then I have to trade autonomy for a different kind of dependence.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
