Purpose is meaningful restriction of freedom
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Anxiety is a side effect of lacking the high quality things one biologically needs. If all your choices are bad, then, yes, you'll have anxiety. If your choices have what you really need (want), the freedom to choose the good stuff will indeed keep you happy.
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Mmmmm respectfully disagree on the basis of a) having a history of anxiety and b) this poorly written old article that I couldn't decide how to title - that nonetheless expresses my views on choice! http://the-unexamined.com/trop-de-choix-tue-le-choix/ …
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I think about this a lot recently. This is not just a common perception, but a fundamental axiom of the entire western civilization. And it's flat out wrong. Some dangerous implications lurking in that rabbit hole.
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Yes, although choice is inalienable however free you are or aren't. Orienting from fear is what creates anxiety, not freedom. The primacy of this fear causes people to restrict their freedom, externally and internally, to ignore choice & ∴ avoid feeling that anxiety.
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Yes. Paradoxically there’s no true freedom without a clear purpose.
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