For One To Be Free There Must

I Guess My Claustrophobia Is Incurable - Feeling, As I Tend To, Ill At Ease In Any Closed Room, And Always Tempted To Find Out What Is On The Other Side Of The Door.

The Woe Of Mortality Makes Humans God-like. It Is Because We Know That We Must Die That We Are So Busy Making Life. It Is Because We Are Aware Of Mortality That We Preserve The Past And Create The Future. Mortality Is Ours Without Asking--but Immortality Is Something We Must Build Ourselves. Immortality Is Not A Mere Absence Of Death; It Is Defiance And Denial Of Death. It Is 'meaningful' Only Because There Is Death, That Implacable Reality Which Is To Be Defied.

For One To Be Free There Must Be At Least Two. Freedom Signifies A Social Relation, An Asymmetry Of Social Conditions: Essentially It Implies Social Difference--it Presumes And Implies The Presence Of Social Division. Some Can Be Free Only In So Far As There Is A Form Of Dependence They Can Aspire To Escape.

You Cannot Have A Cake And Eat It Too. Either You Eat It, Or You Have It.

It Is More Or Less Clear That One Idea Which Should Emerge From The Crash, Whatever Happens With The Attempts To Save The Banks From Bankruptcy And People From Being Evicted From Their Homes, Is That This Kind Of Life Is Unsustainable. We Cannot Go On Like This... Something Must Be Done.