I encourage anyone who hasn't to read Simone Weil's "The Need for Roots", which speaks to our crazymaking moment of total human deracination and the Controller class' urgent desire to turn us all into malleable lumps of obedient processed humanity.
"....complete, unlimited freedom of expression for every sort of opinion, without the least…
I encourage anyone who hasn't to read Simone Weil's "The Need for Roots", which speaks to our crazymaking moment of total human deracination and the Controller class' urgent desire to turn us all into malleable lumps of obedient processed humanity.
"....complete, unlimited freedom of expression for every sort of opinion, without the least restriction or reserve, is an absolute need on the part of the intelligence. It follows from this that it is a need of the soul, for when the intelligence is ill-at-ease the whole soul is sick. The nature and limits of the satisfaction corresponding to this need are inscribed in the very structure of the various faculties of the soul.
Generally speaking, all problems to do with freedom of expression are clarified if it is posited that this freedom is a need of the intelligence, and that intelligence resides solely in the human being, individually considered. There is no such thing as a collective exercise of the intelligence. It follows that no group can legitimately claim freedom of expression, because no group has the slightest need of it.
....Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one. For people who are really uprooted there remain only two possible sorts of behaviour: either to fall into a spiritual lethargy resembling death, like the majority of the slaves in the days of the Roman Empire, or to hurl themselves into some form of activity necessarily designed to uproot, often by the most violent methods, those who are not yet uprooted, or only partly so."
Simone was a prophet trying to free humanity from all forms of oppression designed and sold as pseudo-liberation. There is simply no freedom without freedom of thought and expression.
I encourage anyone who hasn't to read Simone Weil's "The Need for Roots", which speaks to our crazymaking moment of total human deracination and the Controller class' urgent desire to turn us all into malleable lumps of obedient processed humanity.
"....complete, unlimited freedom of expression for every sort of opinion, without the least restriction or reserve, is an absolute need on the part of the intelligence. It follows from this that it is a need of the soul, for when the intelligence is ill-at-ease the whole soul is sick. The nature and limits of the satisfaction corresponding to this need are inscribed in the very structure of the various faculties of the soul.
Generally speaking, all problems to do with freedom of expression are clarified if it is posited that this freedom is a need of the intelligence, and that intelligence resides solely in the human being, individually considered. There is no such thing as a collective exercise of the intelligence. It follows that no group can legitimately claim freedom of expression, because no group has the slightest need of it.
....Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one. For people who are really uprooted there remain only two possible sorts of behaviour: either to fall into a spiritual lethargy resembling death, like the majority of the slaves in the days of the Roman Empire, or to hurl themselves into some form of activity necessarily designed to uproot, often by the most violent methods, those who are not yet uprooted, or only partly so."
Simone was a prophet trying to free humanity from all forms of oppression designed and sold as pseudo-liberation. There is simply no freedom without freedom of thought and expression.