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Katherine Everitt - De La Boetie's The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Importance of Custom

For buddy the one thing that he keeps constantly like going back to is is custom or habit, which is why I think Murray Rothbard the great libertarian introducer to this text. He keeps he keeps bringing up Hume in making some some connections because he will come to some similar conclusions about, for example, consent and these other things about how government tyranny functions. And so it feels like he's saying servitude is against reason, right? Yeah. It does kind of seem to make it about desire although he will add in that possibly deception can play a part as well.

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