Give me Liberty = Death
April 15th, 2008“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
As pretentious as it may be to quote Freud, these particular words have been bouncing around in my head a lot lately.
What really is liberty? Is it an absolute? (In other words, you are either free or not free…)
Or is it something that can be portioned out? Can you be free with limitations? Can there be varying degrees of liberty?
I think it is all relative, just like the concepts of safety and reality. I mean, reality is perception and that’s a whole other topic for another day, but one thing the concepts of safety and liberty have in common is that they are merely illusions.
To suggest that the state (or anyone for that matter) could deliver safety and security to anyone else is to suggest that they can control chaos. By definition chaos cannot be controlled. Therefore all of the measures taken for the sake of “protecting American citizens” are at best empty promises. The fiasco that followed hurricane Katrina showed us that.
We are supposed to accept as fact that the reason 9/11 happened was because the government didn’t have ENOUGH power to prevent it. Therefore we all just agree that they should have MORE power to violate our privacy and our civil and human rights so that they may protect us from chaos.
Are we giving them enough power to protect us from magic? What about Super Novas? What if our sun were to explode tomorrow? Does our government have enough power to keep us safe?
This concept is no more ridiculous than protecting us from terrorism. But we buy it. Why?
Maybe because the corporately-owned media told us it made sense. Maybe because we were so scared we were willing to believe anything. Maybe we’re all idiots.
Maybe a little of each.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking a lot about liberty lately what with all that’s going on with the anti-China protests around the world.
Our retarded president plans on attending the Olympic games in Beijing in spite of all the international attention on China’s human rights violations. He said the games are “about athletics, not politics.”
The fact is, for him to attempt to speak out against human rights violations would be so hypocritical that China would have to call him on it…and we can’t have that.
Of course it’s not at all hypocritical for a “Pro-Life” president to turn a blind eye toward a government that made abortions mandatory for pregnant women who already had one child.
My bottom line is, freedom doesn’t really exist. It is an illusion. We are all slaves. We all have rules we have to live by and just like in China, if we say the wrong thing to or about the wrong person we will be tortured and killed. That is not freedom.
If any of you disagree with me then please, feel free to explain to me in what way exactly are we free?