As Schopenhauer said, even when people are free to do what they want, they are not free to want what they want.
5 responses to “Freedom to Want”
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Not related to this topic, but, how does one get a password to the password-protected ones?
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Send me an email to clarissasblog@hotmail.com and I’ll give you the password
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“even when people are free to do what they want, they are not free to want what they want.”
On an emotional level, this cuts close to the bone for me.
On an analytic level, I think that you’re free to want what you want, but getting it is something else entirely. I think “getting what you want” is pretty freaking rare.
Then again, what would we do if we always got what we wanted?
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