Losing the very idea of the freedom we lack is the deepest unfreedom.

Evidence

Surely the most wretched unfreedom of all would be to lose the ability even to conceive of what it would be like to have the freedom we lack, and so dismiss even the aspiration to freedom, as something wicked and dangerous. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 465

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the chapter’s core concept — the foreclosure of the freedom-concept itself as the worst form of unfreedom.
• XREF: connects to: The inescapable residue of failure is the very condition of living freedom — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 145

Broader Connections

• The inescapable residue of failure is the very condition of living freedom #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 145