It's as if so-called reality the self-imposed obligation to represent it is Soderbergh's great burden, the assumption that prevents him from soaring.
Karzai, who can say discordant things, seemed politely happy with this, perhaps assuming that the easiest way to fulfill our self-imposed obligation was with money.
I would go on about the guilt I feel when I eat at other restaurants, about a self-imposed obligation to pick up the tab for friends at "my" restaurant, even about the stomach aches from royally gorging on free extra entrées after already eating the dishes I paid for except no one wants to hear complaints of how glamour has become a burden (except, inexhaustibly, from Kanye West).
Finally, I am released from my self-imposed obligation.
Instead, I'd spent that time 'catching up' with real-life strangers and fulfilling self-imposed social obligations.
Rather, these duties are something like prerequisites -- self-imposed commitments or obligations that preexist the constitutional text (ex ante?).
Between Facebook, Twitter, email, phones, apps, appointments, obligations (many self-imposed) there is precious little time left to disconnect and 'be.'be
If Enlightenment is "man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity", then this "task", and "obligation" as Kant defined it, is never fulfilled; it has to be continually renewed by every generation in ever-changing social and political conditions.
As Charles Fried observed (in developing an account of contract law based on the law's promissory roots and thus on the idea that contract obligation is "essentially self-imposed") (1981: 2), contractual trust does not establish intimacy but rather serves "humdrum ends: We make appointments, buy and sell" (1981: 8).
