Freedom is many things to many people, choice some would say is freedom, MTV would make you believe that "great" looks and lots of friends and of course money to support these "friends" would most definitely be freedom. To a software enthusiast, perhaps open source would be freedom, to someone in North korea, able to express oneself without fear of retribution could be freedom. To a hungry man, food would be freedom.
But these are just clichés, interest to most people is one's own freedom. That which is just, so diverse that we couldn't ever put our finger and say, ok, this for me is freedom. At this moment, if I had a million bucks, I'd be free. If only I had a job, I'd be free. If only I could take a holiday, I'd be free.
Notice how everything is tied to something that isn't there. Notice, the if-then logic. Just observe how we imagine a situation of freedom, yet as a number of great thinkers would put it, never really reach it - like a donkey with a carrot and stick stuck to its head, we just keep running after the carrot. So we meditate, learn eastern techniques, read books, attain craftsmanship, participate in social events, raise our voice against establishment, propagate our opinions, create policies, create religions, belief systems, social orders, weapons of mass destruction, wage wars, kill to liberate and as some misinterpreted texts would proclaim, die to be free!
But we shall never be, for when we create these systems to bring freedom, we in fact are taking it away.
Food for your thought
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