freedom
dichotomies of freedom.
freedom
Freedom is attunement, being attuned.
If you can pay very close attention to what you are seeing and sensing, and act on that information in the best way you can, then you're handling your freedom responsibly. That's a very hard thing to do because it gets back to agency and introspection.
To really handle it well, you have to understand how the
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You can pretend that you're not free. You can pretend that you have to follow norms and rules, and you can pretend that there's group pressure, but that's you deciding to do that. So you can never outsource it. Or, if you're a Christian and you believe in God, that's you deciding to believe in that. You can never get away from being the one making
... See morefreedom is a heavy burden.
“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.”
—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs of Atuan
—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs of Atuan
sentenced to freedom
burden of being free