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Agnes Callard on Aspiration

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The Problem of Too Open Aspiration

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We've moved towards a more aspirational culture, in the sense that we think people like ought to pursue their talents and engage in this process of finding what they should value. But then that removes this kind of default option of childbear ing. And so it pushes away, an a way, it pushes the whole system a bit away from child bearing. I actually think i in her thinking about this um, you know, thought that, like, we all want freedom, but freedom is also unbearable. We can't tolerate our freedom em and we need to constantly produce stories of how we're alike caused and determined and forced.

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