Beyond Fate
By Margaret Visser
Anansi Press, 169 pages
In Beyond Fate, Margaret Visser demonstrates how the concept of fate invades our speech, our thoughts, our concept of life - whether we are joking about 'chocolate addicition,' thinking about space and time, social hierarchies, being told that something is in the genes, or made to think that life is meaningless. She warns that fate is "the opposite of freedom" and stresses the importance of the modern world's liberation from this deadening concept, urging us to be vigilant of it creeping back into our psyches and enslaving us.