Freedom to be Miserable: Episode 400

11/01/2022 8 min Episodio 441

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In Brave New World, a manager of a factory gives a little history lesson, saying:
“Sleep-teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.”
In that dark, dystopian world, everyone would agree with His Fordship. In that society, superficial happiness is valued much more than introspection, and so being miserable must be despised.
Yet, in our darkest moments, it is misery that accompanies us, that encourages us to re-think and repent, to go back to that drawing board of the soul.
The freedom to be miserable might be one of the most valuable

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