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All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own.

— Herbert Marcuse

a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

Étienne de La Boétie

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Aurelius 2y ago

That’s a good one. This community seems acutely aware of the existence of a tyrant.

What people seem to disagree on, is who exactly that tyrant is.