Laughably, everyone regards themselves as a free thinker.

Everyone.

...and yet, we can point at a number of people whose Minds are fully imprisoned. Those people actually believe they’re free thinkers and believe people like you and me are the Mind-imprisoned.

Not one person will read that Tolstoy quote and think, “oh my gawd! How could I have been so blind to not see that all this time I’ve been a hive-Minded automaton operating on Fear, emotion, and animal instinct rather than logic, reason, rationale and critical thinking!”

Not one.

We should call it “The Tolstoy Dilemma”.

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