Every month, youtuber Ralph Müller delivers his scathing analysis of a social phenomenon. This time on the weight of freedom.
Patrick Chamoiseau wrote: «Carrying freedom is the only burden that straightens the back». Freedom is always perceived as an ideal, as well as a matter of course: we see in it only happy omens and suspect no pitfalls. Freedom is desirable, its absence almost scandalous. Yet it is neither free nor without danger. It is a burden that the individual must learn to bear, and which can play tricks on him. It's not simply a question of being free from external constraints, but of being responsible for ourselves at every moment of our lives.
Being the architect of my destiny, my week or the next hour, is no easy task. Because I always have to do, evaluate, sacrifice, choose. Time never stands still,
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