Freedom
Freedom is
to be on your own, which is most desirable for anyone who want to know the
truth, and want to learn what reality is. It’s so easy to hide behind roles, and
to shout ’mother!’ every time you don’t understand something completely. Mother
will protect you, if she’s still there. But you don’t learn a thing! ...
Freedom
and participation
Lots
of places around the world people live far from decency and beyond the poverty
line. In a global
perspective we cannot go on regarding other people and cultures as totally
independent from ours. They are not. Freedom in one part of the world depends on
the solutions to poverty and crop failures in the rest of the world.
In the
West they talk about globalization. What they really do is exploiting the poor
countries where the labour is cheap, or where the legislative power allows
removal of hazardous chemicals. Globalization ought to take other people and
cultures into consideration by any kind of interference, instead of just using
them.
The
news is that real life consists of many aspects. Very few people are aware of
the variety. Take a walk outside your house and think about it. Inside you are
surrounded by illusions from TV, pretending to tell you everything about life.
Freedom is a personal matter as well as an interpersonal one. Because of the
curvature of the globe human communities have to cooperate, beginning with the
urgent circumstances. At the same time individuals should consider what freedom
is really like...
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