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Freedom is our natural state

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“Pourquoi le peuple consent-il à la servitude ? La servitude n’étant pas naturelle en politique, elle ne peut donc être que volontaire !”  Ecrit par Etienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) , à 16 ou 18 ans, mais publié intégralement en 1576, le Discours de la servitude volontaire  entend comprendre pourquoi les sociétés acceptent, voire veulent la domination. Paul Audi explique pourquoi il a été “frappé comme la foudre” à la lecture de ce texte , qui ne parle pas du pouvoir mais de la liberté que les hommes et les femmes sont prêts à abdiquer. Une œuvre qui, quand on la lit aujourd’hui, nous saisit, tant sa question reste d’actualité.

Paul Audi on Le Souffle de la pensée (radiofrance)

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. Text. In English.

Therefore it is fruitless to argue whether or not liberty is natural, since none can be held in slavery without being wronged, and in a world governed by a nature, which is reasonable, there is nothing so contrary as an injustice. Since freedom is our natural state, we are not only in possession of it but have the urge to defend it.

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011926 or Remember this

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MLK day!

Kevin Rodgers. YYZ Artist’s Outlet. Modern Fuel.

Andor!!! Finaly saw the last two episodes.

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

(Cassian listens to Karis Nemik’s recording…) S1E12

fed anew by its fires to return

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Sustained by poetry, fed anew
by its fires to return from madness,
the void does not beckon as it used to.

Littered with syllables, the road does not loom
as a chasm. The hand of strangers on other
doors does not hurt, the breath of gods

does not desert, but looms large
as a dream, a prairie within our dream,
to which we return, when we need to.

Oh blessed plain, oh pointed chasm.

II Alone, John Wieners

AG2026_1211213a or avoiding damage

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Contrary, besieged, my self
makes me its accomplice.
I owe him, my mandatory proxy,
a borrowed happenstance,
a philosophy in place of me.
Welcome, difficult neighbor,
the patient, dying, announces,
for he is my neighbor, who
assigns the me in me eaten away.
Such is the new future no present
remembers: the fall of the regular
fall of the beat—the disaster
again. Speaking, we cause it
to appear, the gentlest want,
the same word crushed, feverish.
The disaster is beyond the pale.
Improper disaster, what have you
done? God no longer the neighbor
in this night spared. It is dark, disaster.
What a long way there is to go.

Turned Back the Disaster Comes Back, Lisa Olstein

Slow, careful, focused. Avoiding damage.

James S. A. Corey, Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse Book 8)