Gambling, the Death Drive, & Libertarian Neutrality
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Are You Going to Profit? Neve Bao Red
Crawford: This libertarian stance of freedom to decide sounds laudable, but it is actually neutralizing. By remaining disengaged, it covers for a lack of public spiritedness that is true social care and critical engagement. Crawford says the britarians are confused because unlike king james varisin doesn't make straightforward assertions of sovereignty. Instead, it wraps you up in the embrace of rational looking bureaucratic irrationality. The confusion here, says crawford, stems from the paradox of being free as a sovereign individual in a society dedicated to leveraging your animalistic instincts against you. What we need is an account of what it is to be an actor in the world, in touch with other people
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