Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Monday, July 4, 2011
Happy Fourth of July!
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Free at last!...Now what?
Today is Constitution Day in Puerto Rico!
Unbridled freedom, that was the problem, Plato had said. It led to anarchy, then to tyranny. It hung heavy on everyone’s hands. When a man was free to do what he wanted he copied everyone else. In lying, cheating, stealing, anything to pass the time. The banality of evil, the dreariness of it. Handed down from generation to generation. Every age might invent a new way to fuck with you, to annihilate you, but the impulse was the same. Boredom, caused by too much freedom.
-- Chapter 16, The Misforgotten
Unbridled freedom, that was the problem, Plato had said. It led to anarchy, then to tyranny. It hung heavy on everyone’s hands. When a man was free to do what he wanted he copied everyone else. In lying, cheating, stealing, anything to pass the time. The banality of evil, the dreariness of it. Handed down from generation to generation. Every age might invent a new way to fuck with you, to annihilate you, but the impulse was the same. Boredom, caused by too much freedom.
-- Chapter 16, The Misforgotten
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Happy Fourth of July!
Independence Day.
"Liberty means responsibilty. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw.
He’d fuck things up, he felt fairly certain. If there was any chance of letting someone down, he’d seize it. He and responsibility were not made for one another. If Plume told him he was bound to die, he’d find some way to fuck that up. -- Chapter 26, The Misforgotten.
"Liberty means responsibilty. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw.
He’d fuck things up, he felt fairly certain. If there was any chance of letting someone down, he’d seize it. He and responsibility were not made for one another. If Plume told him he was bound to die, he’d find some way to fuck that up. -- Chapter 26, The Misforgotten.
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