[lbo-talk] the paradox of choice

[Carrol Cox]

shag carpet bomb wrote: "this is a great video about why too many
choices actually makes our lives less free or, at least, why too many
choices means we ultimately fall back on the more restricting ways of
making decisions that we were trying to get away from with more choice."

"The compulsion here lies not in the submission of the will to    
Providence (which is the condition of their freedom) but in the total 
freedom of choice itself, in the freedom inherent in the separation of 
action from result which compels the individual to choose freely the
action  which will embody her motive."

	Carrol Cox, "Citizen Angels: Civil Society and the Abstract Individual
in Paradies Lost," _Milton Studies_ 23 (1987) [Actually written around
1981-2]

Carrol