Tag: freedom

The dilemma of the Fallen or the Thrown: the idiocy of happiness or free self-possession and self- regulation in a world of horror and gloom.

December 21, 2025

Gustave Doré’s version of Satan after the Fall may be thinking: ‘Am I happy here?’ Those of us who refuse the blandishments of comforting religions still appreciate the call of bliss, so called, of perfect and unqualified satisfaction and that superfluous emotion we call joy. We all now live in a world into which we … More The dilemma of the Fallen or the Thrown: the idiocy of happiness or free self-possession and self- regulation in a world of horror and gloom.

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: Freedom is oft best experienced and compromised in relationships. The death of love of any kind is usually the accompaniment of the plea of one person on … More Freedom has little use for those who prefer to be bound without choosing and committing to the bonds that matter.