Tag: freedom
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Cultivating Personal Responsibility in the Digital Age
Those deprived of economic or social means to exercise control over their lives often turn to the cybersphere—a less restricted, less inhibited environment—to express the cruelty of their undeveloped selfhood. This is regrettable, because the same freedom from obligations and immediate consequences could have served as a vital space to cultivate the self and discover…
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non-emergent adulthood
While more comfort may sound appealing on paper, it often comes at the cost of liberty. The more we trade freedom for comfort, the more we regress. And like life, regression also has one ultimate destination: childhood. As wary as we are of authoritarian leaders, we should be just as wary of the nanny state.…
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Circus Animals
Social media started out as a space for freedom. Now it’s killing our authenticity. We talk about tolerance almost incessantly. Identities get tolerance but our individuality doesn’t. The way we should be expressing ourselves is under constant surveillance. At times by the government but most of the time by people.
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5 Skills 4 Freedom
Freedom is such a big word… Everyone has a different take on freedom, but I don’t believe it to be a subjective concept. Freedom is essentially being able to do something without things holding you back. I would limit freedom to negative freedoms, which are the building block of a healthy society, whereas positive freedoms…
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