• @BlanK0@lemmy.mlOP
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                  4 months ago

                  Ya, more freedom for example. Chill doing whatever you want, its all your responsibility now.

                  • @DarkNightoftheSoul
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                    24 months ago

                    Yeah, that’s a good way of putting it. Freedom to succeed implies freedom to fail. Unfortunately, too often neither failure nor success are ultimately your responsibility. The older I get is the more I realize I don’t have the control over my life that I thought I had. Most apparent control is an illusion in that way: Processes designed to give you the impression of control without actually providing it. Even the control you seem to have over your body- well, just wait until your body (or god help you, your mind) starts to betray you. Arguably, under a superdeterminist/perfect materialist interpretation of the universe, all control, all choice is an illusion.

                    But, for all that, there is a different kind of freedom that comes with giving up caring about some of that stuff, not worrying about it and allowing the chips to fall where they may. To be sure, some things are worth standing up for, but not everything. To that point:

                    I don’t know quite where I came off as unpleasant or whatever you might call it, but I promise that wasn’t my intention. Sometimes I rub people the wrong way without meaning to. I only downvoted you for saying I was angry, which isn’t called for I think. Well, that and your submission which I personally don’t think is well fit for the community, but that’s just my opinion. Maybe you could try one of the digital art communities? I seem to recall Beehaw has a good digital art comm.