Re:The gift of it's your problem now
by VWWHFSfQ on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:16PM
(#29744104)
> the correct way to think about our relationship to society
This right here is the problem. I'm very familiar with Simone Weil's ideas, and also the criticisms. Her entire philosophy can be reduced to "Ubuntu": We are who we are, because of who we all are.
The problem is that this doesn't follow with a free society. Or individual liberties. It's basically that the "individual freedom" is reduced to the lowest common denominator of what the society will comfortably tolerate. And that, by definition, is tyranny.
This right here is the problem. I'm very familiar with Simone Weil's ideas, and also the criticisms. Her entire philosophy can be reduced to "Ubuntu": We are who we are, because of who we all are.
The problem is that this doesn't follow with a free society. Or individual liberties. It's basically that the "individual freedom" is reduced to the lowest common denominator of what the society will comfortably tolerate. And that, by definition, is tyranny.