For Sartre, to pretend that you have no choice is to live in ‘bad faith’. No excuses! Even to choose not to choose is a choice. Jean-Paul Sartre claims that we always have choices - even when society and convention and family obligations say that we don’t - and that we are condemned to choose. We’ve been learning about existentialism in the class I am doing with the Open University. My friend agreed that that’s what failure would be like. Once I’d made the decision, I remember telling a friend that the same song lyric kept playing in my head over and over.Īnd pumping gas. It took a few years before the idea became a plan but, once it did, I felt totally liberated.
The 2 x 90 minutes in the car every day and the tiny, tiny house on the edge of civilisation were not things I’d chosen and the idea that I could trade ambition (plus 3 hours in traffic) for comfort suddenly seemed very attractive. At the time, I was still climbing the greasy pole in Silicon Valley and not enjoying it very much. What it means, though, is recognising that big things in life – an OK relationship, a secure sense of self-worth – require giving up some excitement. We don’t generally think of resignation as a virtue it sounds like failure. According to Botton, ‘In fact, it is Andrew who has been successful.’ But, on the brink of success, Andrew Ridgeley chose a different path. We’ve been taught by society, and not least by the pop industry that made George and Andrew famous, that fame and riches are the highest goods available to us and to achieve them means we have succeeded in life. Ragged Clown on How do you celebrate a cancerversary?Ī casual observer might decide that George had found the golden path to success while Andrew had slipped down the greasy pole into failure (this was before George had his legal problems and his, er, death).Claire ATX on How do you celebrate a cancerversary?.Brian on How do you celebrate a cancerversary?.Bernard North on Sozzlehurst and Hiccup.
#Wham i don t want your freedom software#
Mind is to brain as software is to hardware.
Things I’ve done that you (probably) haven’t.
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