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Shamus

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2021.06.19 13:11

Excerpt from On the Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness" and so when the labourer works under external control, "we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.
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  • Shamus 2021.06.19 13:12

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    Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my new reading of Chapter 49 from Herman Melville's The Whale, here. ✨ https://youtu.be/2XqfWYv8JbQ
  • Valeria 2021.06.19 14:32

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    Like a music for the ears👍
  • Valeria 2021.06.19 14:33

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    @Luis Pativano you do it wery well 👍I have a creepy accent 😄
  • Luis Pativano 2021.06.19 14:49

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    @Valeria noooo u r special
  • Valeria 2021.06.19 14:51

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    @Luis Pativano I said it from the heart. I swear 👍
  • john 2021.06.19 15:26

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    Must be nice to be at the top of the pyramid looking down on the filthy rabble who has to work for a living until they can’t work, and so die. Meanwhile at the bottom some of the rabble are less alienated from the “very nature” von Humboldt admires so much. We are thinking up designed for a machine that lops off the heads of rulers.
  • john 2021.06.19 15:29

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    Hahah nice read though, and it’s good to widen our horizons by hearing the perspective of others.

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