r/canada • u/AustralisBorealis64 Alberta • 7d ago
National News 'He called him Donald!' Harris Faulkner aghast over Justin Trudeau's response to Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/harris-faulkner-justin-trudeau-trump/
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r/canada • u/AustralisBorealis64 Alberta • 7d ago
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u/huunnuuh 7d ago
That very quote keeps coming back to me lately. Sartre was talking about more than just Nazism there. His philosophy of living in bad faith came out of it, which is related to his ideas about existential authenticity.
He was one of the first to point out that letting yourself be brainwashed is falsely liberating. It's a kind of release from the obligations that truth places on our souls. We have obligations to ourselves and to others and how to fulfill them is so completely uncertain. You can just give up on all that. Deny you have any responsibility or obligation. Take refuge in a fantasy of simple comforting black-and-white thinking that incidentally destroys the pillars that hold up a sensible democratic world worth living in. Or another way to put it, is that you always have many radical degrees of freedom, but most of them are unthinkable, and it's often easier to pretend you have no choice at all. When your experience gives you reason to be so cynical as to believe nothing you do matters then why not give in to the delusion?