The Reaction Economy
The LRB Podcast
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Is There a Freedom in Not Reacting?
I mean, one of the things that occurred to me about the people reacting the way everyone else does is because quite often maybe you don't have a response to whatever it is you're meant to be responding to. There's this expectation you have to react to things and here are all these pre-made ones which you can use or you can copy. And maybe there's a freedom in not reacting. But yeah, I mean, a compulsive reaction is a rather more kind of, I suppose, a slightly more sinister idea.
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