Deny the Desire for Recognition
YOUTH: So you said that today we would discuss freedom. PHILOSOPHER: Yes.
Did you have any time to think about what freedom is? YOUTH: Yes, actually. I thought about it at great length.
PHILOSOPHER: And did you arrive at any conclusions? YOUTH: Well, I couldn’t find any answers.
But I did find this—it’s not my own idea, but something I came across at the library, a line from a novel by Dostoevsky:
“Money is coined freedom.” What do you think? Isn’t “coined freedom” a rather refreshing term?
But seriously, I was fascinated to find this one line that drove right to the heart of this thing called money.
PHILOSOPHER: I see. Certainly, if one were to speak in a very general sense
of the true nature of that which is brought about by money, one might say that is freedom.
It is an astute observation, to be sure. But you wouldn’t go so far as to say that “freedom therefore is money,” would you?
YOUTH: It’s exactly as you say. There probably is freedom that can be gained by way of money.
And I’m sure that freedom is greater than we imagine.
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