Friday 16 May 2008
Myth of Freedom
How free are we? Everywhere I look i constantly see things that I can't do. In every society I have visited or lived in, even visiting a country. You can't visit this place if you have this visa, you can't work here if you worked here before. You can't leave here. There might be the illusion that one can leave but in reality, institutionalized consequences prevent us from really experiencing the freedoms that we are told we have. After the enlightenment and the increase in "religious" freedom as in the freedom to choose, or to refrain from choosing, as well as the decrease of the power of institutionalized religion in aspects of our lives, it has been replaced by a new "legal" code that is just as restraining as the "religious" code it replaced.
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Again, excellent questions. I have always felt that "freedom" is eutopia, maybe some sort of a compass, but never a destination. However, through your post it truly hit me that while fighting injustices and freedom, while judging religions and cultures, we end up replacing them with other non-freedom systems...
Keep up the wonderful blogging!
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