freedom
we are not entities that can experience freedom as a Platonic ideal. we require too much from the world to maintain our physical existence.
true freedom is not getting anything you want, it is not wanting anything.
in a very real sense it's the nihilist ideal, absolute autonomy from desire. once achieved then you are absolutley free from Control and from another's Authority.
gaining freedom from Authority and Control works both ways, and it is biologically unsound to be free from control. were we to lay down and not express our autonomy we would very quickly cease to be.
for as long as your desires are contrived for you, coded into you, and generated externally then you aren't free, though you are autonomous to choose between desires and needs.everything between these two understandings are shades blending towards one another.
you're generally a lot happier when you recognise your autonomy and disregard the need for freedom. which is exaclty what the government requires of us to maintain status quo; it's not a good thing, nor a bad thing, it just is & the consequences abound.
Death cannot be Freedom, for there is nothing left to experience, you cannot make another choice or exercise any autonomy. when someone says "she's free now" they're really saying "I'm free now" & the responsibilities of that freedom are crushing, emotionally complex and take years to resolve.
a person isn't their legal duties, a person isn't their work role, nor their relationships with others. a person is simply this physical presence, this vital and withering vessel, nothing more. & that is so very, very liberating that it's enough to lift all the cloying layers we build around ourselves, if only we remember once in a while & accept the responibility of autonomy.
much love.
>;3
true freedom is not getting anything you want, it is not wanting anything.
in a very real sense it's the nihilist ideal, absolute autonomy from desire. once achieved then you are absolutley free from Control and from another's Authority.
gaining freedom from Authority and Control works both ways, and it is biologically unsound to be free from control. were we to lay down and not express our autonomy we would very quickly cease to be.
for as long as your desires are contrived for you, coded into you, and generated externally then you aren't free, though you are autonomous to choose between desires and needs.everything between these two understandings are shades blending towards one another.
you're generally a lot happier when you recognise your autonomy and disregard the need for freedom. which is exaclty what the government requires of us to maintain status quo; it's not a good thing, nor a bad thing, it just is & the consequences abound.
Death cannot be Freedom, for there is nothing left to experience, you cannot make another choice or exercise any autonomy. when someone says "she's free now" they're really saying "I'm free now" & the responsibilities of that freedom are crushing, emotionally complex and take years to resolve.
a person isn't their legal duties, a person isn't their work role, nor their relationships with others. a person is simply this physical presence, this vital and withering vessel, nothing more. & that is so very, very liberating that it's enough to lift all the cloying layers we build around ourselves, if only we remember once in a while & accept the responibility of autonomy.
much love.
>;3
Labels: autonomy, freedom, liberation, responsibility, snow fall
posted by Zip Durango | 5:50 PM
1 Comments:
Tough topic, hey!? A very thought provoking piece... I especially like it that the piece ended up wrestling with a different (though cognate) question: "What is a person?"
It reminded me of Foucault's anti-humanism with a similarly attenuated concept of what a person is. But Foucault's whole "the soul is the prison of the body" idea blew me away so hard I still haven't recovered.
I don't like the idea of freedom from desire much. Sometimes I think I'd make a shit-house Buddhist.
Thanks for the brane-activation - think+think+think... xmartinx
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