@OgbeniDemola tell me you don’t know African history without telling me. 💀 ethiopia adopted christianity, centuries before most of europe even heard of it. try again.
@magattew Ethiopia was never colonized and then lists every symptom of being surrounded by colonized neighbors. Turns out being the only free country in a colonized continent is expensive. Being free and poor beats being rich and owned. Ethiopia would choose it again.
We are all quick to see the Will's ugliness in others and slow to see it in ourselves because we experience ourselves from the inside, where the Will dresses itself in reasons and justifications, and others from the outside, where the naked striving is visible.
- Schopenhauer
You have never made a single free choice in your life.
Your reasons, your values, your identity — the intellect built all of it after the Will already decided. You didn't choose. You watched yourself choose, then wrote a story about why.
- Schopenhauer