Tag: dailyprompt-1935

Freedom has little use for those who prefer to be bound without choosing and committing to the bonds that matter.

May 5, 2025

My convoluted title is meant to avoid the sense that bonds are unimportant and contrary to what freedom is. Freedom and bondage are only binary contraries either to: Those who only want a notional freedom, one wherein there are no motives to to be free of the sometimes invisible bonds chained around them like those … More Freedom has little use for those who prefer to be bound without choosing and committing to the bonds that matter.

About one thing the existentialists were surely right: freedom is angst / anxiety and that is why we require to be engaged / committed / bound to our own project.

May 5, 2024

Turn where you will for advice with regard to how to conduct yourself (whether in a formal job interview or life generally), you will, in the end, get advised that you need to ‘Be Yourself!’, or so some formula that boils down to the same thing. But ‘being yourself’ implies that you have one unitary … More About one thing the existentialists were surely right: freedom is angst / anxiety and that is why we require to be engaged / committed / bound to our own project.