Comments on: Nobody will tell you what is good http://www.wisemandarine.com/nobody-will-tell-you-what-is-good/ none the wiser Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:55:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: mandarine http://www.wisemandarine.com/nobody-will-tell-you-what-is-good/#comment-218 mandarine Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:32:51 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/nobody-will-tell-you-what-is-good/#comment-218 Nobody <em>has to</em> have a car, a mortgage, a full-time job. Yet life is so much simpler when we have a mortgage, then we <em>must</em> have a full-time job, and therefore a car to get there: there are much fewer alternatives, week-ends are the only moments we only have some sort of choice about our life (like which movie to go to). That's the perfect modern-times self-inflicted slavery system, when in fact we are free to choose otherwise (humanity lived and prospered long before there were cars, mortgages and full-time jobs). PS: I knew you'd like the chocolate bar analogy ;-) Nobody has to have a car, a mortgage, a full-time job. Yet life is so much simpler when we have a mortgage, then we must have a full-time job, and therefore a car to get there: there are much fewer alternatives, week-ends are the only moments we only have some sort of choice about our life (like which movie to go to). That’s the perfect modern-times self-inflicted slavery system, when in fact we are free to choose otherwise (humanity lived and prospered long before there were cars, mortgages and full-time jobs).

PS: I knew you’d like the chocolate bar analogy ;-)

]]> By: Emilybarton http://www.wisemandarine.com/nobody-will-tell-you-what-is-good/#comment-217 Emilybarton Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:20:43 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/nobody-will-tell-you-what-is-good/#comment-217 Freedom can actually be so imprisoning when we don't know how to let go of our own beliefs about what we can actually change and what we can't. I just struggle so with the notion of having to serve in order to be free, as world religions teach us. It's so counter-intuitive. Meanwhile, no matter how often I may mutter, "You know, nobody's really free in this society," I know perfectly well that I wouldn't want to have to give up my life in the here and now to live as a slave in 19th-century South Carolina, for example. Meanwhile, your chocolate bar analogy was brilliant. Freedom can actually be so imprisoning when we don’t know how to let go of our own beliefs about what we can actually change and what we can’t. I just struggle so with the notion of having to serve in order to be free, as world religions teach us. It’s so counter-intuitive. Meanwhile, no matter how often I may mutter, “You know, nobody’s really free in this society,” I know perfectly well that I wouldn’t want to have to give up my life in the here and now to live as a slave in 19th-century South Carolina, for example.

Meanwhile, your chocolate bar analogy was brilliant.

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