We feel unfree

Some of my American colleagues like to repeat: “we are sold freedom as unfreedom.” A similar sentiment, from Slavoj Zizek: “we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”

Okay, but what if it’s worse? What if the problem is precisely that we *are* too free, adrift in the world? The problem today is that few of us seem to lack the language to articulate our unfreedom. The internet, universities, and homes are infused with insufferable ramblings of our supposed unfreedom.

This leads us toward a much more troubling problem. It is a problem that goes beyond simple ideology-critique.