Freedom (small)

One can argue that freedom is our greatest gift from god, but one can also equally argue that freedom is mostly only an illusion.

True freedom, like love and forgiveness has to be unconditional, otherwise it has little meaning. We are all born to be free souls, with free will, but we are in effect all enslaved by conditions.



We are enslaved by our fellow men and by our own desires.

Our inherent freedoms are to:

• love,
• imagine, think, desire, hope,
• learn from others,
• ignore intuitions and advice,
• sin and hate,
• kill others and
• kill ourselves.

We are free to:

• listen to and follow whom we want, but we end up listening to the loudest voice and following the largest crowd,
• act as we wish, but we are physically, emotionally and morally restrained. 

We are too much influenced by others to act on our free will. Our freedom to act is limited mostly to make wrong choices that lead to mistakes and consequences that we can at best learn from. Our freedom ends up a thin illusion dividing the opposites of determinism and randomness, order and disorder. That is why "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose" has so much meaning and why the ecstatic feeling of freedom is like entering a mandelbrot set.



Freedom to imagine can free us from the bonds imposed by physical laws. It enables us to create and manifest a reality that overcomes the laws of gravity and fly free of it, as long as we build a hot air balloon or an airplane.

We are even free to be ignorant of having given up our freedom and to falsely believe that we are free and secure in an enslaving and dangerous world.



We are free to watch and read and listen to whatever we want, but end up blindly reading and listening to whatever the mass media provides and dictates. We follow like sheep and go wherever the mass media entices us to go and do whatever it entices us to do. Most of us are willing slaves of money and we will do most anything for it, and refuse to do most anything unless we are paid to do them.

The freedoms that we are ready to kill and die for in wars are illusionary. Free speech, the freedom to state your opinions whatever they may be, are silenced by direct and indirect censorship. Most of the press is controlled by a handful who are in turn controlled by the unseen few who control everything behind the scene of what you see, hear and read. Freedom to vote every 5 years for politicians to represent us is a scam, as the politicians are themselves slaves to the money they are bought with.

The newly available technological advances which carries promises of freeing and enriching us only ends up enslaving us and enriching the rich. Future technologies will free us from manual labor and we will be delegated to run the machines that will increase profits for their owners by manufacturing mostly useless products.

We will then become willing and grateful consumers of these cheap products. We will not only remain slaves of the rich, but also become slaves of their machines.

THE END

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