This Philosophy Reduces You to a Coffee Mill: Are You Truly Free?

Описание: The perspective shared here from Mark Twain's later work is profoundly unsettling. An older philosopher confronts a younger man with a doctrine that actively dismantles human exceptionalism. This view suggests that all personal glory, heroism, and earned applause are illusions. Man is not elevated; he is systematically degraded to a passive instrument—a mere machine with no control over its own operation, only capable of grinding coarse or fine based on outside forces. A stark, necessary confrontation with the mechanics of behavior and the myth of free will unfolds in this sharp exchange.
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