its particulars.
in fact, everything is already determined,
in fact, all the particulars have been determined and
are enforced.
in fact, where I violate what has already been determined I will be stopped.
in fact, the enforcers will enforce.
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“Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the
Law; that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set
beyond human judgment. In that case one dare not
believe that the doorkeeper is subordinate to the man.
Bound as he is by his service, even at the door of the
Law, he is incomparably freer than anyone at large in
the world. The man is only seeking the Law, the doorkeeper is already attached to it. It is the Law that has placed him at his post; to doubt his integrity is to doubt
the Law itself. ”
“I don't agree with that point of view, ” said K.,
shaking his head, “for if one accepts it, one must accept
as true everything the doorkeeper says. But you yourself have sufficiently proved how impossible it is to do that. ”
“No, ” said the priest, “it is not necessary to accept
everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary. ”
“A melancholy conclusion, ” said K. “It turns lying
into a universal principle. ”
Franz Kafka
I presume that I am free. I act. the enforcers enforce. I discover that I am not free, then: either I lie (it is necessary to lie) or I struggle (if I do not lie, I
must struggle), if I struggle, I ask, why am I not free
and what can I do to become free? I wrote this book to
find out why I am not free and what I can do to become
free.
Though the social structure begins by framing the
noblest laws and the loftiest ordinances that “the great
of the earth” have devised, in the end it comes to this:
breach that lofty law and they take you to a prison cell
and shut your human body off from human warmth.
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Woman Hating
Ultimately the law is enforced by the unfeeling guard
punching his fellow man hard in the belly.
Judith Malina
without the presum ption o f freedom , there is no
freedom . I am free, how, then, do I want to live my
life, do my work, use my body? how, then, do I want to
be, in all my particulars?
standard form s are imposed in dress, behavior,
