a quote from Reading Autobiography by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson that articulates my ideas much better than I can:
“That is, they have ‘false consciousness’: they collude in their own lack of agency by believing that they have it. It is not enough, then, to say that people exercise free will. The concept of ‘free will’ is itself embedded in a discourse about the Enlightenment individual, a historically specific discourse through which subjects understand themselves as intellectually mature and free to make their own choices. To claim that all humans have something called ‘free will’ in this way is to misunderstand an ideological concept as a ‘natural’ aspect of existence.” (43)
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