Your freedom is the freedom-from. [...] It is this meaning only, this freedom from constraint and forced duress. [...] But what of the freedom-to? Not just free-from. Not all compulsion comes from without. You pretend you do not see this. What of freedom-to. How for the person to freely choose? How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?
quoted from Infinite Jest by DFW.
..stumbling about in the dark. this confusion of permissions.
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