A young graduate recently informed me that her generation was much freer than mine. She had been told by one of her Sociology lecturers that the anxiety students experienced today was due to the amount of freedom they enjoyed compared to graduates of an earlier generation. I told her that this was untrue and in fact the reverse was the case. Students of decades ago – both at university and in school – enjoyed more freedom than she could possibly imagine; they were not ‘owned’ by society, as so many people now are. What her lecturer was conflating was freedom and choice which are very different things.
Approaching The Nietzschean Moment
Approaching The Nietzschean Moment
Approaching The Nietzschean Moment
A young graduate recently informed me that her generation was much freer than mine. She had been told by one of her Sociology lecturers that the anxiety students experienced today was due to the amount of freedom they enjoyed compared to graduates of an earlier generation. I told her that this was untrue and in fact the reverse was the case. Students of decades ago – both at university and in school – enjoyed more freedom than she could possibly imagine; they were not ‘owned’ by society, as so many people now are. What her lecturer was conflating was freedom and choice which are very different things.