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What is choice?
Is it when I can decide to switch the radio on or leave it turned off because I don't like the music they're playing?
Is it when I can choose to buy the blue disk instead of the DVD to have the extended version?
Or is it when I can decide whether to blow away my head or to jump off a building?
What is a real "choice"?
In the democratic sense, it would be like I wanted to decide between strawberry-flavored ice and chocolate-flavored. Both things are offered to you, maybe even cost the same. All from which you can choose is in stock.
Reality looks more twisted than that.
Even under a democratic system, there is no choice like that.
It is called "choice" if you choose to have a cheap payment job to keep your social benefits and not land homeless on the streets, it is called "choice" if you have the possibility to buy two things from which one won't be produced in foreseeable time and it is called "choice" if you decide to have an illegal weapon in your house to defend yourself against rioters because the police is not going to come.
What kind of choice do I have?
I have the choice between life and death. Between my ruin or between the being of an underestimated modern slave.
What kind of choice is that?
It is a choice of mine when I remain with a person who maltreats and beats me up after I've run away three times, but it's definitely not a choice when I can decide whether to be homeless or to live in home-staged poverty.
There is no decision if I choose from three products with three different names, but they all contain the same.
There is no decision for modern technology if the previous generation can't be integrated with the current one.
The decision's been taken away from me.
Is it when I can decide to switch the radio on or leave it turned off because I don't like the music they're playing?
Is it when I can choose to buy the blue disk instead of the DVD to have the extended version?
Or is it when I can decide whether to blow away my head or to jump off a building?
What is a real "choice"?
In the democratic sense, it would be like I wanted to decide between strawberry-flavored ice and chocolate-flavored. Both things are offered to you, maybe even cost the same. All from which you can choose is in stock.
Reality looks more twisted than that.
Even under a democratic system, there is no choice like that.
It is called "choice" if you choose to have a cheap payment job to keep your social benefits and not land homeless on the streets, it is called "choice" if you have the possibility to buy two things from which one won't be produced in foreseeable time and it is called "choice" if you decide to have an illegal weapon in your house to defend yourself against rioters because the police is not going to come.
What kind of choice do I have?
I have the choice between life and death. Between my ruin or between the being of an underestimated modern slave.
What kind of choice is that?
It is a choice of mine when I remain with a person who maltreats and beats me up after I've run away three times, but it's definitely not a choice when I can decide whether to be homeless or to live in home-staged poverty.
There is no decision if I choose from three products with three different names, but they all contain the same.
There is no decision for modern technology if the previous generation can't be integrated with the current one.
The decision's been taken away from me.