Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Importance of Self-Determination
I think that the proper way of understanding freedom is not as a lack of constraint on your individuality to use Gordon's term, but as a form of social determination. Not being able to form meaningful relations with other people and not being able to realize your full range of human capacities would very quickly come to be seen as extraordinarily stifling. But if we weren't here, you could just rant the entire hour. Think about how free that would be. Just fucking speak into the abyss, eh? Yeah, it's funny. I do personally think that a lot of modernities ills, yeah, they're connected to capitalism, technology. And also kind of have like my own speculative theory about
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