There is a conflict, a struggle in everyone between these two directions. One solution is to try to put aside reality: have contempt for it. Two very common ways people have contempt are: We can either fight with the world aggressively or run away from it into a world of our own that is more comforting. “Everybody,” wrote Mr. Siegel, “is to a degree icebound, and crippled, and stuck, and jammed, and shut in .What is it for a person to be free?” People of the arctic, like people outside the arctic, have not known entirely what it is to be free. For example, there is what.
