Oh, I find myself raging about the contemporary madness over 'choice'.
I have thoughts about it.
I reckon you can trace a history of its current usage, and I actually think a seminal moment in the U.K. was the publication of Natasha Walter's first book - which has implications way beyond those she might ever have foreseen, and popularising an ultimately damaging tendency in progressive thinking.
It's roots lie in the post-68 critique of Sartrean Marxism.
But the point is, we need to stop, or at least give space for deeper reflection - because it's more hindrance than help.
Political arguments, narratives to describe, empower and change, are not hewn in tablets of stone. They are human creations - intended to have traction and incite action in the material world.
We need to start working on this contemporary madness around the word 'choice'. We need to face up squarely to instances where people (we, us) misrecognise our best interests (yes, we do that sometimes - though often we have help doing that,) or act in situations where we really aren't thrilling with joy in the full unleashing of a replete agency and autonomy.
How can we have reached the point where it is anathema to say this? When it's a fundamental fact of most of our lived experience?
It's completely bonkers. A vast tranche of progressive politics seems to have chosen to gaslight themselves about the reality of our lives.
It's just baffling.