I guess I'm pedestrian: I see "freedom" as simply the availability of choices.

I don't know what the "tyranny of the future" is. I usually think of a
person or people as tyrants, not a period of time.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:10 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Carroll Cox writes:
>
>>> Freedom is the ability to act without  considering the future results of
>>> the action.
>>>
>>> And the central tyranny of capitalism is that it subjects _all_ action
>>> to the tyranny of the future. This definition is conpatible with my
>>> other ffavorite definition of freedom: Freedom is free time.
>
> Sounds like the life lived in "On The Road" by Kerouac.  Fair?
>



-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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