# Fish in a Tank and Human Freedom: A Conversation About Being Stuck

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121509924526071908
- Source account: [@superdramagl](https://x.com/superdramagl)
- Source language: Chinese (China)
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:37
- Published: 2026-11-14
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/k5s1M8TIApr5/en/fish-in-a-tank-and-human-freedom-a-conversation-about-being-stuck
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## Transcript

[0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/k5s1M8TIApr5/en/fish-in-a-tank-and-human-freedom-a-conversation-about-being-stuck?t=1) What are you looking at? Fish.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/k5s1M8TIApr5/en/fish-in-a-tank-and-human-freedom-a-conversation-about-being-stuck?t=6) What's so fun about fish? You watch them swim around, thinking they’re moving forward, when they’re really staying in the same place.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/k5s1M8TIApr5/en/fish-in-a-tank-and-human-freedom-a-conversation-about-being-stuck?t=19) Fish in a tank don’t know the glass is transparent, They think they can go wherever they want, but they're still in place.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/k5s1M8TIApr5/en/fish-in-a-tank-and-human-freedom-a-conversation-about-being-stuck?t=27) Some people are the same. What traps them is also where they stay.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/k5s1M8TIApr5/en/fish-in-a-tank-and-human-freedom-a-conversation-about-being-stuck?t=33) Then let them stay. As long as they have someone with them.