Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“I am not sure I remember too much from my high school philosophy class, other than the lesson that I probably would not be actively pursuing a career in philosophy. But I remember one discussion about displaying one’s rebellious nature by doing the exact opposite of whatever an unfavored person said. The teacher made the point that if you always did the exact opposite of what person X says, then you are just as much ruled by X as any of X’s most cultish followers. In such a case you have completely abdicated your agency to X. I took the lesson from that, which I still try to follow to this day, that you have to process people’s actions and ideas one by one.” (10/02/25)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2025/10/on-having-zero-agency.html