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Sparrow · 02-02-2010, 03:52 AM

Thanks for the very interesting reply.

My own view is that we tend to think we are freer than we are, a delusion that most of us share with Vashti. We see the motes in the eyes of others, but not the logs in our own.
But maybe that's because I think of freedom in black and white terms - you either are free or you're not. Most people wouldn't want to be free - e.g. anarchy is widely used as a pejorative term.

02-02-2010, 03:52 AM	#50
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	Thanks for the very interesting reply. My own view is that we tend to think we are freer than we are, a delusion that most of us share with Vashti. We see the motes in the eyes of others, but not the logs in our own. But maybe that's because I think of freedom in black and white terms - you either are free or you're not. Most people wouldn't want to be free - e.g. anarchy is widely used as a pejorative term.