Who remembers the gesture of Lafcadio in "Les Caves du Vatican", novel by André Gide This character decides to throw the train an old man who sits across from him. He is a man that he does not know. He has no reason to kill him, he was not even thinking in this one minute before killing. The assassination without mobile will be a pure manifestation of its sovereign decision, the sign of its willingness to fully free. This "free Act" is an end in itself. Supposed to not respond to any solicitation, did obey no constraint, to apply any purpose, it is his own cause. It is therefore compete with God.
This Supreme free reveals the precise opposite of economic rationality. A step further: it will soon be seen in many cultures, it is a fundamental attribute of the divine world. Calvin says for example that the generosity of God come to us of his "free", i.e. its sovereign will, "to depend on always him."In India, the sanskrit word "lîlâ" refers to the "game" of the cosmic absolute: not in need of nothing (by definition), it world it that pleases. Unpredictable and spontaneous, his actions are purely free...
In the old world, "free" meant so often "without reason", "without reason": thus talked of a hypothesis or a free wickedness. In this perspective, it was fundamentally freedom - human or divine, capable of the worst or the best - that symbolized the idea of free. We are obviously losing this dimension when the free fit into the circuit of trade, as is the case today, at the end of a longue story. Summary of the previous episodes: previously, everything was simple, there are paid and that it did not pay. On a slope: transactions, market, economic activity, the trade and flows. On the other side: donations, gifts, offerings, the volunteer. Of course, everything what was free, in the current sense, was not in the same way. Medical consultation was necessarily a price, it was exempted from when she was free. However, it is for a different reason that human dignity, love, or the truth were free (except...): they were no prices, by nature.
Now, as everyone knows, everything changes. Develops great "economy of the free" - inconceivable area only some time ago. With the help of Web and marketing ploy, a multitude of newspapers, services and products show that can be free and bring large. The Google empire is the most well known artwork, but it is hundreds of others. The principle is simple: here, it's free, but on the other hand, paying anything, or otherwise. Every day, ingenious minds invent new devices, with shots billiards in several bands and supply creating demand. This works more or less, but the plan is always the same: with the free, make the profit.
Selflessness has become a player in the market. This new exhibit makes the paradoxical economic puzzle. But it subverts also by backlash, outside the economy, more is not believed. Lafcadio had a blog, the story of his free act he now lead advertising benefits and derived income. Is this a good thing or a bad This will be to the reader to decide. It may look as déplorable this violation of the idea of free, judging that the commercial gains compensate nothing symbolic loss. It will have to notify, a contrario, that the deflation of the concept of free can also have its advantages: for example, more realism and the fantasies of omnipotence and less. Prosecutor its reflection on appropriate tracks, the player will eventually have to say that this route is for him: pipe dream free or pay thinking
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