This book contains individual essays or notes that follow a common thematic focus. They discuss the possibility of free and independent thinking by the individual and the obstacles to it, which are usually not perceived as such. The center of the book is a series of six texts addressing the problem of what it will be like when it has become incomprehensible what an idea is. Its background is a real experience: In conversations with graduates of academic studies, I have often noticed that they are no longer able to grasp a thought of mine as it was intended: namely, as an idea that I have formed and that I am now sharing with them to convey how I think. The university education has influenced their personality in such a way that they have now developed a habit of...