“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
