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James baldwin giovanni's room amazon6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The more abstract and ideological the realm, the more vehemently we can insist that moral choice in specific situations within narrow parameters proves a totality of freedom. We don’t choose the incredibly narrow band of homeostasis within which we can be alive at all - in bodies that die when their temperature rises above 40 degrees Celsius or drops below 20, living on a planet that would be the volcanic inferno of Venus or the frigid desert of Mars if it were just a little closer to or farther from its star.Īnd yet, within these narrow parameters of being, nothing appeals to us more than the notion of freedom - the feeling that we are free, that intoxicating illusion with which we blunt the hard fact that we are not. We, none of us, choose the century we are born in, or the skin we are born in, or the chromosomes we are born with. ![]()
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