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Title: Freedom and Solitude Author: Marilisa Fiorina Date: Spring 1978 Language: en Topics: individualism, solitude Source: Retrieved on 12th August 2021 from https://trashstratum.com/freedom-and-solitude/ Notes: Translated by Stephen Marietta, from Il Diverso # 1, Spring 1978
Anarchy is the negation of authority of whatever kind, it is affection
and solitude.
—L. Ferre
To be alone, liberated from the yoke of collective life. Here is the
most logical system for being truly free—free from convention, from
dependence and the extortions of others. It is solitude alone that makes
the individual really free.
Each day we are victims of hypocrisy, continually reciting the rules of
bourgeois etiquette: "thank you... excuse me... I am sorry." Others
flatter, judge, criticize. Others decide for us, others live on our
weaknesses, others cheat us, others steal from us, others, always
others, usurp our lives.
It is they who love us, who hate us, who betray us, rob us of our
thoughts, words, life. It would be logical to leave them all, to flee
physically and mentally to a proper island of solitude, self-sufficient
and courageous. Courageous? Courageous because it is difficult, because
we are incapable of living really alone, because we have need of contact
with others in order to express our feelings, to realize ourselves, even
for the simplification of our actions.
It is difficult for one individual, weak, even psychologically insecure,
to do without friendship, love and solidarity. And then, clearly, life
in solitude would appear monotonous because, as always, our emotions,
our adventures, arise from others, evolve among others.
There is another solitude, perhaps more understood, more naturally
respected, than that of the hermit. It is when you no longer feel a part
of these others, when you no longer participate in their mode of living,
making a world apart from them in which they no longer count, from which
they are excluded. It is when you no longer accept their love, their
benevolence, their hypocrisy—and your solitude then becomes freedom,
rebellion, it is open defiance of society.
Anarchist individualists are alone, their life lies outside the rules
imposed by others. They choose the individuals whom it pleases them to
have near, to listen. The others they regard as if they were
non-existent, or as enemies. Individualists live beyond the walls of
society—but not as those driven out.... They are mental, rather than
physical, fugitives, and their solitude is loved, it is the realization
of their free thought.