"L’homme est condamné à être libre"
The paradox of puppetry
With all our chosen strings
Performing the part of analgesic
That allays the pain of picking,
Assails the liberty that looms
An idea too large, and dooms
Us into an epigram of Sartre.
Comments
Fri 30th Jul 2021 00:42
Thank you, Stephen ?. You draw an apt parallel!
Fascinating poem. A rather abstract notion of absolute liberty still plays a big part in French and European thinking, as seen in recent demos against vaccine passports.
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M.C. Newberry
Fri 30th Jul 2021 15:34
The paradox of freedom stays with us. The question remains:
To what extent does your version of freedom impinge on my own
understanding of the word?