nothing is true, everything is permitted

freedom is to be found only in the sensation of acting, of self (and thus world) creation, of the realization through practicing the old saying "nothing is true, everything is permitted." [example: the revolutionary finds freedom in the experience of totally transforming society, and thereby making himself - not just simply in the removal of restrictive forces.] to experience this, one must be capable of doing anything at anytime - remember the story of achilles and the tortoise: the tortoise asks achilles: "are you free, achilles?" and achilles responds: "of course i am free! i'm achilles, a god among men, and free men at that. i can do anything i want!" "so," queries the tortoise, "could you kill me?" "easily! i am achilles, the invulnerable" (not so, as it turned out, but anyway) "hero of greek myth and legend - and you are a tortoise." "so kill me," challenges the tortoise, matter-of-factly. "but you are my steadfast friend, my bosom companion, my comrade! i could never kill you!" protests achilles. "exactly," whispers the tortoise, suggestively, and achilles shudders. the moral is that in a situation where all meaning is already attributed, freedom is irrelevant, for all your possible actions are already determined. freedom is to be found only in the new spaces, in the brand new moments when fresh elements come into play and you have to re-create yourself from scratch. one must remain in practice if one is to be a revolutionary. one must constantly destroy and re-create the self, must push limits and break every rule and limitation. the problem with all this is that the exercise of total freedom is bound to conflict with your (or other's) desires. the answer to this, of course, is simply that we must create a world in which everything that is possible is also desirable - so that such a thing as "sin" will no longer be conceivable, and there will be no reason for guilt, no possibility of hypocrisy or conflict between desires. in the utopia, our revolution (MYTHICALLY SPEAKING, of course) will create everything, and anything will be possible - and good, for our hearts demand NOTHING less than total freedom. i shouldn't have to resist anything, any temptation; therefore i must make a world of temptation without shame - a world empty of fast women, top 40 pop music, organized religion, and fancy, elitist bourgeois restaurants, for example!