The first and last freedom

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1. hypertextheroDec 2025
   It took me a long time to notice that the word in the title is “massage”, and not “message”, in Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium is the Massage (An inventory of effects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

   Links to various editions: https://www.biblio.com/the-medium-is-the-massage-by-marshall...

   Also of interest, notes about the observer being the observed in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Think on These Things — https://www.biblio.com/9780060916091 — and The First and Last Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom

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2. hypertextheroMar 2022
   The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti, with a forward by Aldous Huxley.

   I read it while living in California, during a trying time after deciding to move far away from my parents, and it helped me see all of life in a calm new light.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom

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3. hypertextheroDec 2021
   The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti (forward by Aldous Huxley)
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4. hypertextheroNov 2020
   See also I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, and The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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5. notoriousarunJul 2020
   The First and Last Freedom By J. Krishnamurti
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6. hypertextheroFeb 2019
   The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti.

   It changed how I think about identity by showing me the danger of labels, and made me appreciate the beauty of life.

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