As we are condemned to freedom, our greatest sorrow...

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Do you mean to say freedom is sorrowful... I might miss the point here, but I feel that our fear of an apocalypse, or the end of the world as we know it, is just that... a fear of true naturalistic freedom devoid of machines and business suits
Something like that anyway...

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"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth"
- Agnes Repplier

When you're forced to be free, freedom can be said a sorrow. Anyway that is not necessarily my own feeling: I was quoting Sartre by memory... But there remains a question to dig: isn't it paradoxal to say that we're free when we are obliged to be free? La phrase de Sartre est "l'homme est condamné à être libre"... Kind of tragic feeling: joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure melt together...
I agree with you about our fear of an apocalypse: humanity can't end, but we are going towards hard times. There will be a civil war or something, and after that everything will go on a new and (maybe) better way (just because there will be less to feed). We just don't want to be here when everything starts to burst...
But in the mean time: yeah death to business suits! hang'em high and dry!

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Satre may have something there... I see this issue with some places in Canada trying to force Islamic women to remove their burkas. Although it may appear to be a freedom (as it stands as an icon for female oppression) to these women it would be a nudity and to be forced to "disrobe" would be akin to sexual assault. That's just my interpretation though... Life, free or otherwise, is indeed filled with "joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure"... there's just no getting around it.
Well, in any case, I have a new favorite saying!... Death to the business suit!

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"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth"
- Agnes Repplier

The impediments, forbids and constraints of peculiar cultures are not felt as limitations of the freedom by those who can't see further than their culture and way of life (and in some way we all are in this case -that's almost frightening: there's no valid point of view from which judge the whole humanity). When you're told to drop off the basis of your self being, in the name of freedom, you're left with nothing else to be, and you often prefer your cage, your jail...
The question is: I live free from god, free from superstitious and religious principles, beliefs. I think that wearing a burka or a cross is a limitation of the freedom and of the mind. Then, what is my own jail? (because there must be one!) What is this thing, which is so close to me that I'm totally blind to it, which operates my own limitation as well as a burka or a cross?

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All true! Especially, there being "no valid point of view from which to judge the whole of humanity"!
I would say that the academic has a cage that is just like any other. Although they are bound to uncover some "truth" of the universe, whether it be theoretical or empirical, they are still limited by the power structure of the academic institute which privileges some research or opinions over others when considing grants, (corporate) sponsorship, publication... It's a system just like the Christian or Islamic religions which dictate how their members act and/or which values they legitimate no matter how much we'd like to think or say otherwise... Oh, but want a nice prison we have made for ourselves

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"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth"
- Agnes Repplier

So how did you make it to pass your punk paper? I'd say an accurate, a fresh and new point of view, is always able to make its way through... Some teachers of my university have written very uncommun thesaurus, for example. But the problem I was pointing is the problem of the proof: the proof needs a proof which on its turn needs a new proof... Every new breakthrough breaks some boundaries, but how do we know which new ones it raises? We'll only know once we have broken them, and on and on...
About the academic, there is of course an institution which decides which truths will be discovered, which values will be promoted... but how can we prevent a man to think and write in another way, beside the common rail?... Of course this guy will end up alone the most likely...

By this way, I have to thank you for the reading you let me do about punks and Iggy Pop: it gave me new ideas for my next year work, things nearer than my everyday concerns...

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