I was struck by this sentence from Wallerstein: "l like to think of this as the moment in historical time when free will truly comes into play." My first reaction is to say: Buy so much of our personal and social speech behavior now seems to me pre-scripted,—predictable according to fixed ideological parardigms, And what can free will mean when that will has been "captured" by a charismatic leader and absorbed into his own will, as we see with Trump's sycophants? And as we saw in Hitler's mesmerizing effects on Germans? So a period when wills really became free would be truly revolutionary moment, fraught with promise anda danger both. But far preferable than anything mapped out for us by Maco Rubio and JD Vance.
I was struck by this sentence from Wallerstein: "l like to think of this as the moment in historical time when free will truly comes into play." My first reaction is to say: Buy so much of our personal and social speech behavior now seems to me pre-scripted,—predictable according to fixed ideological parardigms, And what can free will mean when that will has been "captured" by a charismatic leader and absorbed into his own will, as we see with Trump's sycophants? And as we saw in Hitler's mesmerizing effects on Germans? So a period when wills really became free would be truly revolutionary moment, fraught with promise anda danger both. But far preferable than anything mapped out for us by Maco Rubio and JD Vance.