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“The idea of choice has deeply penetrated our perception of feelings, as though we can ‘choose’ whether or not to have them.”
― The Tyranny of Choice
― The Tyranny of Choice
“The film nicely shows how a person may make a rational decision to achieve a goal while at the same time unconsciously doing everything possible to avoid it. It may be that what held this couple together was the very lack of sexual satisfaction or the mutual search for a solution, while the realisation of their quest proved unsatisfactory.”
― The Tyranny of Choice
― The Tyranny of Choice
“No matter how much we may try to manipulate our feelings of anger with the techniques these books suggest, in the end we will probably only feel angry at ourselves for not overcoming this painful emotion.”
― The Tyranny of Choice
― The Tyranny of Choice
“The ego (one’s self-perception) is a very shaky structure, easily undermined by unconscious drives and desires. It is possible to repress those drives for a while and feel like a capable, rational subject, but eventually they will reveal themselves in the form of idiosyncratic behaviour, slips of the tongue, even illnesses. The perception that one can craft an identity by copying that of someone else has created particular problems in today’s society.”
― The Tyranny of Choice
― The Tyranny of Choice
“Sol! Take your daughter, your only daughter Rachel, Whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there as a burnt offering at one of the places of which I shall tell you.” Sol hesitated and looked back to Rachel. The baby’s eyes were deep and luminous as she looked up at her father. Sol felt the unspoken yes. Holding her tightly, he stepped forward into the darkness and raised his voice against the silence: “Listen! There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices for anyone other than our fellow human. The time of obedience and atonement is past.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
Eliezer Silva’s 2025 Year in Books
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