The myth of absolute freedom
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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.
New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. What is freedom? The simplest definition is something like the absence of limits. Freedom means more options, fewer obligations, no walls, no constraints. It's the ability to keep every door open for as long as possible.
And on some level that makes sense. Nobody wants to feel trapped. Nobody wants to be restrained by arbitrary boundaries or somebody else's idea of how a life should go. But there's another side to this. Too many choices can also become a burden.
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