La liberté

Incidentally, it is blissful not to be Reeducated, although I am still shaking some dust off myself. It is different because one can just move ahead and do things, without having to limit action and vision somehow.

Reeducation believed in a number of false dichotomies. You could either accomplish things or be «happy», either think in a precise way or be «happy» and so on; also, whatever your first or truest or most deeply felt reaction to anything was, was wrong.

Remaining calm was a sign of «having too much control» or of being «scientific» (a bad thing) and therefore «unfeeling» (false dichotomies again).

It was necessary, then, to renounce calm, instinct, intuition, confidence, trust, reason, precision, and accomplishment, so as to prove that one could «feel» and and also relinquish control, which were the hallmarks of «happiness» and also the «true self.»

The presupposition appears to be that all Reeducands were numb and rigid, and had to be loosened up, so to speak, so they could feel and be happy. More deeply, though, the fear appears to have been of others´ autonomy, of not failing to choreograph them perfectly every time.

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I remember long afternoons in which I earnestly tried to explain that calm intuition was hardly rigid impulsiveness, and also that to think rationally was not the same as to rationalize.

I think I was far too kind then, and I renounced far too much.

I think a lot of people are much more conventional than I imagine.

I might be prepared to become kind again, now.

Axé.


5 thoughts on “La liberté

  1. If you were too kind and renounced too much, you’re always on time to correct past decisions and put yourself together in the way you think is most appropriate now. Experience always teach us new things and it is up to us to remodel our present and future life and behavior.

  2. Oui, ma banque d’affaires ne m’a pas libéré. Cela a eté une illusion optique. J’ai bésoin de lunettes.

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