It would be all too easy to slide from an emphasis on the importance of human choice into a growing assumption that when people are not able to make choices, when they become utterly dependent, their value is diminished.
Most fled Morocco's military assaults, taking refuge in camps where they became utterly dependent upon foreign aid for the duration of the prolonged (16 years) guerrilla war that the Sahrawi waged against the Moroccan Army.
Clearly, we have become a society that is completely and utterly dependent on our mobile phones, but that dependency still can't quiet concerns for personal safety and security.
So we shuffle on, until it's too late to make any decisions at all, and we become helpless pawns in the politics of deferral, and utterly dependent on the humiliating procedures that for all our rational life we so wished to avoid.
"Outside of New York, people are utterly dependent on cars to get anywhere at all," Eric Drooker, the artist behind this week's cover, "Fifty-ninth Street Bridge," says.
People utterly dependent on winter hunting (though they did have gardens and harvested wild rice, too) became adept at reading the world in a way that seems supernatural to us.
Santorum was utterly dependent on super PACs to remain in the race, yet he soldiered on.
