Monday, May 12, 2008

An analogy.

Acquiring a concept is like being taken hostage. I must apply like it this, I can only see it like this, I am forced do like this. But in being taken hostage by a concept I immediately suffer from Stockholm syndrome. I identify with the concept. That is to say, I take its commitment upon myself freely. The way in which I am compelled is more alike to being bound by a moral imperative than to being forced by causality. My spontaneity reigns here. I am free to use the concept. But only free to use it like this. Just like a hostage held at gun point is causally free to do whatever he likes, but knows that it will have consequences to do whatever he damn well pleases.

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