What Covid-19 Has Taught Us: People do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility.

Ella Valentine
2 min readSep 1, 2020

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ― Sigmund Freud

The ongoing Covid-19 panic has made me rethink what ‘freedom’ really means to us and how much we actually WANT to be free. Humans have already spent thousands of years getting trapped in jobs they hate, living the rat life relentlessly, but at least it used to be done with a purpose, whether the purpose was…

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