Freedom is positive; it needs the vivifying world of values. If we have no purpose, we serve someone else’s, or we serve a purposeless machine. We have been assigned a senseless task: to adjust, to adapt, to normalize, to internalize the death principle before we die, to regard ourselves not as Leib but as Körper, to consider ourselves as nothing better than a computer simulation, to die without having lived, to self-zombify.
