Are You Free or Goal-Oriented?
According to Hannah Arendt (born this day), once you are goal-oriented you are no longer free, because the goal sets the agenda for how you think and act. Thus, a goal- oriented society inevitably becomes totalitarian once it enshrines a certain principle as its end. Even equality. Even dignity. Even liberty. Any single value, unchecked, leads to oppres…
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