I Dreamed We Were Free

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Reflecting on this week’s reading, I must admit that my previous relationship to the concepts of freedom and liberty was under-reflected. La Boetie wrote, “one never pines for what he has never known; longing comes only after enjoyment and constitutes, amidst ...
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I Dreamed We Were Free

Dilemmas of Voluntary Servitude

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. My favorite paragraph in Etienne de La Boetie’s “The Discourse On Voluntary Servitude” that we read for the second class, is probably the beginning of Part II, which calls on the doctors on behalf of the mortally wounded in spirit, ...
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Dilemmas of Voluntary Servitude