From: dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 15:13:02 MDT
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### If your peers are in one of the major parties, indeed collaboration is
> in order to achieve your collective goals. For a person for whom freedom is
> the defining part of a better future, neither of the two current (almost
> indistinguishable) political powers is a suitable companion.
Well, you have already told me you think this is a somewhat alien
attitude, but I will repeat that for me freedom is not a "goal" of
politics, but an experience one has when one engages in political (public)
activity, broadly construed. When one collaborates or deliberates with
one's peers in the expression or attainment of values or ends, then one is
free, so long as that fragile process of collaboration is in play --
whether or not the end is attained, whether or not the end is good, true,
or beautiful, freedom attends the process itself, not the achievement.
Treating freedom as some kind of entity, space, institution, or what have
you seems like a bit of a confusion to me.
Best, Dale
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