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blazeofglory
07-26-2008, 11:40 AM
Can you live a life of absolute freedom? In theory we are free citizens of a country or free society, and yet in reality barely we are free. And we are not free, for since birth we have a Chinese wall that encumbers or gets in the way and we are marred from seeing things. We are forced to judge things from someone’s discernment.
You look at beauty from someone’s eyes. You have values and they are borrowed. Your gods, beliefs, opinions, outlooks, conclusions are appropriated. You were something like dough and they moulded or cast into the type or character they chose to see.
What you are or look like is not a bit of the quintessence of you or the kernel of you, and you are a mishmash or miscellany, bits of this, bits of that, in substance, a forced mix of things.
Life is a sequence of agreements and all are chained sophisticatedly.
The case in point is we have to reverse the course of civilization and value systems, going back in time to arrive at truth, and experience true freedom. What we call free will is a biblical notion and liberty is something we spin out of the ideas of a few thinkers.
I mostly emulate or simulate things and piece ideas together and call it original, inventive or creative, yet they originate somewhere and I call it mine.
I do not know for sure I am right in putting these ideas across you.
Everywhere I feel dominated and in return I feel delighted to dominate others. I am tortured and I enjoy torturing others. I got led and I choose to be a leader. Leadership has its roots in slavery, and it is a sophisticated way of enslaving others. I do not think slavery is eliminated. It is profusely rampant everywhere.
I work for a company and I am subdued to obey someone and if I fail to comply with the conditions set for me I will be a misfit or oddity and since the milieu I am in demands absolute acquiescence.
Authority, say – so, endorsement are some of the catchwords we come across and we give in to all these things and yet we claim to have lived in a country of democracy.
Democracy, egalitarianism, equal opportunity are just sweeteners, and can loll us into revelries, and or something leaders in power drug us into believing in their ideologies. They ideate things and we have to customize ourselves into their ideas.
Freedom is a misnomer, and since it does not exist in the present social setup it loses its gravity and sheen.
I am at odds with the convention of writing, and here you will come across sentences that do not run sequentially, and have points characteristic of incongruities and absurdities. For I am opposed to conformism and therefrom I persuade against the idea of submitting to unproven theories or rationalizations.
I may be confusing and yet I will try to convince you through a series of writings coming forth.