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I read somewhere how we basically have no freedoms at all, going all the way to our births, being born without our consent and all that follows.
Does that mean that death is the only true freedom then?
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Now thinking about I don’t even know what freedom even means in regards to both life and death.
However there is a strange and beautiful clarity when you realise that the road ahead is much shorter when you’re older than longer when you’re were young.
It’s like a fog lifting and the first time you see the world as it is actually is, not as you were taught to see it.
You see that capitalism with profit seeking algorithms, are continuing to produce a system that is becoming more and more politically bankrupt, leading to the Esptine files.
These algorithms are destroying what’s left of freedom, making decisions in every part of one’s life, spreading selfishness at the core of their functions.
Even death these days feels forced and doesn’t feel like freedom cause as soon as we’re dead it’s not like we exist and be free to do whatever cause we’re dead.
Nature treats death with indifference.
To see death as natural, banal, and even unremarkable is not to dismiss its emotional impact — but to restore it to its place within life, not above it.
It is not death that defines life, but how we live knowing it ends. The noise around death is ours, not nature’s.
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Both feel like a prison we can’t escape.
Because we’re slaves to our needs.
We’re slaves moreover to the means that get us the things we need to survive, and to the people who hold them.
I think the only freedom we really get is the ability to free our minds and be able to observe what happens to us and around us with some level of detachment.
Unfortunately that’s a double edged sword as the more you understand, the more you realize how utterly blind, deluded and helpless humanity is as a whole.
What does it mean to survive — and at what cost?
Money limits our freedom of movement.
In a world where medical technology can prolong life indefinitely and where suffering often outlasts hope, the simple act of staying alive has become ethically complex and extremely expensive.
So the capacity to choose one’s attitude — the last of the human freedoms.
From an evolutionary perspective, survival is not a moral choice, but a program.
However we’re standing on the verge of a world without freedom, which like life is very fragile, fickle and in need of protection.
There were always choices to make.
“ Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.” (Man’s Search for Meaning, p. 86-7).
Clearly this is freedom to give, which is freedom to be human in the higher sense of the word.
Thus, you are free when you are a subject, not an object, when you are self-determining, not determined. You are not attached, coerced or dependent on anyone or anything else. You are your “very self.”
On the other hand, we do also need our instincts, including our instinct for survival.
Instincts serve a good purpose providing they serve us and we don’t serve them.
There is a difference between mindless following and mindful consideration of need. In the first case you give up control. In the second your common sense is clearly in charge.
The freedom to choose your own way has to emerge from an inner freedom to be who you are not an algorithmic freedom.
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