Biting More than I Can Chew

By Federico Carusso

Biting More Than I Can Chew, treats everyday subjects from a brand new perspective. Philosophers prepare the land for us to explore it and to be able to create, innovate and analyze our reality without taking anything for granted.
Federico is a cashier in a supermarket in Argentina and even though he has barely no English education, he learned it on his own because he understands that the topics he treats have an universal reach, therefore he has chosen to write his very first book in the most popular language.
He will make you feel closer to subjects that may seem big and distant.
When routine sucks you in, you are constantly supplying for immediate needs, leading to an automatic behavior, not leaving space to reflect on how to transform reality or how reality transforms you. Life's complex, this book won't solve your problems, but there are things that are intrinsic to the very existence of problems and they are usually implicit, this book makes them explicit.
In my personal experience when reading Biting More Than I Can Chew, I recognized the themes discussed as part of my routine. But the reading made me stop for a minute and reflect on them in a way that I hadn ́t before.

Everyone can and will find useful (and touching) to read "Biting More Than I Can Chew".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Federico Carusso
• Release date: Apr 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9789878690940

Federico Carusso

ArgentinianUsed to study medicine but quit to become a writer.Pleased to be here.

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Biting More Than I Can Chew

Friedrich's Sophie

Carusso, Federico

Biting more than I can chew : an original take on reality / Federico Carusso ; fotografías de Federico Carusso.

- 1a ed. - Carapachay : Federico Carusso, 2021. Libro digital, EPUB

Archivo Digital: descarga y online

ISBN 978-987-86-9094-0

1. Filosofía de la Naturaleza. 2. Filosofía del Arte. 3. Antropología. I. Título. CDD 146

Where intuition and deduction align

And the time to be selfish and generous is the same

I’m aiming

CONTENTS

My Name

The Origin Of Freedom

Power

Functional Ethic

Identity

Identity Bis

Abuse

Responsibility

Concioussness

Love

Betrayal

Admiration

Exploring Disciplines

Boredom & Loneliness

Unsolvable Problems

Values

Desire

Curiosity

Institutions & Individuals

Beauty

Common Sense

Success

Fun

Ugliness

Simplicity

Patience

Zeitgeist

Father

My Name

What does it mean to be a man?

What does it mean to be me?

Kindness can only be performed by the strong.

Strength is only available in tranquility.

-Who are you? He asked.

I felt the upcoming revealing of my name as a threat.

My essence in it, in that dreaming world.

And I regretted knowing it, though knowing it has been my whole life’s wish.

It wasn’t out of fear, I disliked the idea of giving myself up to others.

And so I mumbled Friedrich, with the intention to fail midway.

I was swallowed by chaos, the whole world collapsed.

THE ORIGIN OF FREEDOM

So.. There is this somewhat famous phrase that goes with freedom comes responsibility. And I don’t think everyone sees it this way but I think inside everyone there’s at some point a reaction to this phrase that is something like the one you would have a cool friend that has a very annoying best friend, and they are always together, so if you ever want to go out or even see the guy, the friend is there and it’s not that you hate him (or her), because he’s not evil, but he is a pain in the ass. So the logic thing is to at least wish you could for once meet this friend on your own.

Here’s the thing. And this may be clear to many people but I think that’s is unclear to enough people to make the proposition:

This phrase is true. But you could make the exact mirrored phrase and it would also be true.

With responsibility comes freedom.

I’ll give you an example of this.

Let keep the two things (freedom and responsibility) separated for now. We’ll describe them in a parallel way.

Let’s imagine that you are a kid.

Well, it’s very clear in this example that you don’t have a lot of freedom, and the main reason for that is your parents. They are the ones that almost always stop you from doing something you want to do, or tell you what you have to do.

Ok, so.. At the same time, and in an unrelated manner for the sake of this argument, you have zero responsibility. You are just a child, so no one would hold you accountable for your actions (at least not in the same manner that they would hold you accountable for them if you were an adult) and an the same time, again, your parents are the ones who are responsible for your actions, and not just that, they are responsible for your health, your education and your well being in general, at least in the sense that if some aspect of it deteriorates because of their negligence they will be held accountable for it. And very very bad things can happen to you if your parents are negligent.

So, let’s say that something bad does happens to you while you are a child, we all agree that is not your responsibility, but your parent’s. In so far as they were negligent to some degree.

Let’s say now that you grow and that you experience difficulties in your performance in some aspect of your life. An aspect that is sufficiently related to the area of your life in which you had the bad experience as a child that to conclude that the difficulties are caused (at least partially, because finding causality in life is pretty difficult) by the experience is not a wild assumption or the result of a very convoluted way of reasoning.

So, it wouldn’t take a very convoluted way of reasoning to assume that to some degree the difficulties you are experiencing are your parents responsibility. And we may even agree on that.

But here is the core argument.

In so far as you take that posture and validate that assumption you will never experience full freedom.

Let me explain why.

First of all there is the problem of specifying what is the degree in which your parents have responsibility over the difficulties you have now. But let’s say you are reasonable and you keep it relatively low in your hypothesis of shared responsibility. There are more problems with it.

And the first is that that small percentage of responsibility over the difficulties that belongs to your parents doesn’t belong to you, so you will always have that excuse.

The next is a major one.

Difficulties in some area of your life don’t present themselves in some abstract manner. They present themselves as a variety of actions, which involve from failed attempts at doing something and very hard worked successes (hopefully), to doing things you didn’t really wanted to do and maybe hurting yourself and others.

So, this problem confronts you with the question: Your parents are responsible to some degree for your actions as an adult? Because that is what the initial assumption implies. And, as we established before that means that to some degree you are not responsible for your actions. And the potential problems with this way of viewing things are self evident.

The last problem is the one that actually demonstrates my point, so let’s go for it.

Let’s say you have this assumption made and you find it reasonable, but instead of validating it you say:

Even though my parents have a percentage of responsibility in me having these difficulties, from now on, I’ll take full responsibility for them.

So, what do you have now?

Difficulties. It ain’t a great situation and not much has changed right?

Wrong. They are now your difficulties, fully. And I will go into why this difference is important but first let’s clarify that there is no guarantee that by doing this you will actually overcome them. So it’s understandable that at first sight there is no evident benefit in doing it.

But let’s go to the other case scenario in this example.

You stay with the assumption that the difficulties you experience in your adult life are to some degree the responsibility of your parents. Even if you think of them as grains of sand on a beach, or in the ocean for that matter, and only one grain belongs to them.

In so far as you validate this idea you will never own all the grains. So, you will never be able to fully overcome your difficulties, because what is not your responsibility is not in your domain of ability to truly transform.

So, from the moment the possibility to make the choice to take full responsibility presents to you, maybe as the idea pops in your head, you have the freedom to take responsibility.

So, yes, freedom comes first (surprise!) but it is only a seed of freedom. Because you have only to options. And you can put the seed in the ground that is responsibility, and it may or may not grow to be a full tree of freedom. And if it does it may be healthy and tall and give fruits and provide more