Sid’s notes on freedom
The first step towards freedom, as I understand it, is to stop asking permission to do the things you want to do.
The desire for permission is closely tied to anxiety (“promise me that nothing will go wrong”)
that burden—responsibility for and ownership of one’s choices—is literally freedom
The second step is to free yourself from narrative.
doing what you think a free person should do isn’t true freedom.
Freedom from narrative means that I can do things without wondering what sort of person each choice makes me, or whether I’m a good or bad person. I can change my mind with incredible agility.
The final step, the one that I’m working on, is freedom from self-analysis. I conjecture that true freedom is the rekindling of childlike innocence. The concept of the self is weakened, and one becomes immersed in the flow of life. Thoughts and actions are unified as one process.