Human beings should undoubtedly strive and fight for all their earthly freedoms within the physical, social, economic, and political domains of the world. But if and once they have, the remaining unsatisfied existential freedom, in search of which they will continue to drink and run and lust and love, perhaps requires a different kind of consideration. “Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis,” wrote the philosopher Emil Cioran.
