Once you get some distance from the foolish moralizers and the foolish anti-moralists, keeping the body in the possession of the soul, the exterior in the command of the interior, becomes quite a necessary and difficult job. It is important that the exercise of freedom retain the character of freedom; else it just takes the place of freedom in an always-already-understood world.
Odd to be surrounded by the cacophony of protests on an otherwise peaceful seventh-day. No idea what role they're playing in the local politics. Might help those breaking the eggs long-ways, might help those breaking the eggs short-ways. My only possible point of understanding is the universal human, something to which, by definition, no political faction can lay claim. Reasoning from this, the tendency of every political movement to lay claim to the universal claim of right is also error by definition. Heid: we possess speech most fully in keeping silent, and every act of speech is particular, contingent, perhaps necessary, but invariably a derogation of that fullness of being. There is no originary fullness in logos as logos, or for that matter, eidos as eidos. But who can keep from thinking or speaking?