“Women are not by any means to blame when they reject the rules of life, which have been introduced into the world, seeing that it is men who have made them without their consent.”
–Michel de Montaigne, ca. 1588
Day: June 8, 2018, 9:52 AM
Decision Query
Most people want to feel they have a choice, but are actually just fine with only the feeling and in many ways prefer that to having a real choice.
That is, most people don’t actually want to be condemned to Sartre’s freedom, but rather want to believe they could have made a different choice, but in reality there was no conditional decision, just the illusion thereof. This is the preferred state of humanity it seems, as real choices are terrifying and too consequential.