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. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
