Sunday, April 10, 2011

Condemned to be free

Sartre's condemned to be free principle reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode I saw. In the episode I saw, hell is a place where everything occurs as you want it. For example, you play a game of pool- you always win. You like a girl- you always get her. You want a mansion- its yours. In this way, Rod Sterling (the writer of the Twilight Zone) created a world with no variability, and everything is predictable, a product of one's will. Similarly, freedom being a product of one's will, if one could achieve absolute freedom- would it be the heaven we all think it would be? Or, after further examination would it become something like Sterling's Hell?

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