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COLUMN: Modern life can't be called truly free

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From: University Wire
Date: 20060228
Author:Adrian Wong

Adrian Wong
University Wire
02-28-2006
(Daily Trojan) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- They say we are free, but I can't help thinking that on every level they are wrong.

This weekend I've been reading and re-reading the Grand Inquisitor chapter of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," and one part of it particularly strikes me.

In this poem, the Grand Inquisitor mentions that people would be happier if they had their freedoms stripped. Without freedom, people would not be burdened with the responsibility of acting for themselves.

The Grand Inquisitor first mentions that bread should be used as ...

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