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That Fearful Freedom

In Josef Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Mister Kurtz gets what he wants by killing the people who oppose him until he has surrounded his small domicile on the edge of the Congo River with severed human heads. What would you do if all society’s rules were removed?  Read More

I disagree

I think that the notion that we have this individual freedom is a falsehood. Anyone who has spent much of their life making their living from the land, that is in agriculture or an associated trade, will tell you man cannot live without man. There is always responsibility to our neighbors and families. We can choose selfishness but that selfishness is ultimately the choice of self destruction.

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Ethan Gilsdorf is a journalist, teacher, poet, geek, and the author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks.

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