{"id":4049,"date":"2011-08-19T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2011-08-19T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:51:44","slug":"escaping-room-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4049\/escaping-room-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaping Room 101…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[I wrote this in the late Summer of 1995. –GSS]<\/em><\/p>\n

 
I moved to a new apartment this Spring, and it happens that my new apartment number is 101. We live by symbols, like it or not, and I can’t look at my door or write my address without thinking of George Orwell’s “1984.” For in Room 101 is housed one’s greatest fear, the secret dread that, Orwell implies, will drive a person to betray every value in his life. Nothing like that here, thankfully, but there’s nothing so fine as a metaphor to focus the mind.<\/p>\n

I spend a lot of time thinking about the love of life and its antithesis. For me, the quest for human liberty has little to do with laws or strictures or jack-booted thugs hiding behind mirrored shades. We are not enslaved or set free by other people, and we will not change our interior existence by convincing other people to change their behavior. We are free as we dare to rejoice in the beauty and glory of life, and we are enslaved as we shrink from that rejoicing. The ego is a realm infinite in extent, and it cannot ever be invaded from the outside.<\/p>\n

And thus, some of the secret desires of libertarians seem a little silly to me. Assuredly we need to stand firm against new statist encroachments and complain incessantly about those already in place. But the Minerva fantasies and Atlantis fantasies are a bit much. To the world, we speak of free countries where free men and free women can produce untold wealth in free markets by the free exercise of free thought. But I suspect that in the privacy of imagination what is foreseen is the Neverland, where one can play forever and never grow weary. That’s fine, I suppose; life would be dull without daydreams. But the essence of a daydream, or the vice at least, is imagining a universe where one is not oneself, where one is not who one really is.<\/p>\n

“‘I like people who live their dreams in the day.'”<\/i> I made a fictional character say that a long time Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[I wrote this in the late Summer of 1995. –GSS]  I moved to a new apartment this Spring, and it happens that my new apartment number is 101. 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