When people are sovereign together, they generate unpredictability. As they do so, they recognize this in one another, welcome it, and gain from it. When we apprehend others as Leib, we see them doing what we are doing, making choices in the zone between the world of things and the world of values. Working together, people bring human unpredictability into the world, and joyfully. This helps us to be free of all the people and forces who would rule us by predicting us or by making us more predictable. Free people are predictable to themselves but unpredictable to authorities and machines.
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