we are the animal that suffers disconnect from meaning ... our system produces a complex series of interactions — feeling responses, dreams ranging from the turbulent and troubling to the transcendent, symptoms, patterns, sudden jolts, insights, recognitions, regressions — and then ineluctably surges forward again and forges new connections ... somewhere in all that complexity is the fantasy of, the possibility of, choice
as Jean Paul Sartre argued, we must act as if we are free, take on the “terrible” burden of choice, and be accountable