In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

To be in debt is modern day slavery. Free yourself as fast as you can