Self-inflicted Slavery


Being, and having, brings with it, some form of slavery.

He who has something to lose ends up being a slave to whatever that he has to lose. In the very same way that a sensible speaker is a slave to making sense.

So, as soon as an unemployed person gets employed, he too becomes a slave to “remaining” employed. And, he who plans a journey becomes a slave to its path.

The lover in he who marries becomes restricted to loving the lover in their lover.

Likewise, a reputable man is a slave to ‘maintaining’ his reputation.

(To be obsessed with ‘freedom’ is to be a slave.)




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— February 7, 2011.