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We are like slaves who, because we have been slaves all our lives, don’t think to ask what gives our master the right to order us about. Indeed, we can’t even conceive of what freedom would be like

We are like slaves who, because we have been slaves all our lives, don’t think to ask what gives our master the right to order us about. Indeed, we can’t even conceive of what freedom would be like

November 12, 2016 Nate

On Desire: Why we want what we want P. 154

We are like slaves who, because we have been slaves all our lives, don’t think to ask what gives our master the right to order us about. Indeed, we can’t even conceive of what freedom would be like.”


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