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THE WHAT-IS-WHAT MAZE ‑‑ DECAY INVENTED BY LAW ‑‑ THE PURSUIT OF THE WHATCHAMACALLIT ‑‑ PLEASE, I WANT TO BELIEVE IT ‑‑ CONDITIONAL FREEDOM
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THE WHAT-IS-WHAT MAZE
We live in a society in which freedom comes with a continuously increasing load of know‑how responsibilities.
The
most disturbing responsibilities are those of catering and reporting to the
government.
The most unpleasant of the latter is reporting our income and paying
taxes.
If we don't do it according to incredibly complicated rules, we are
treated like criminals.
Property ownership
is only nominally a liberty.
The owner is merely a tenant who pays the rent
(=tax) to the government.
If you skip the tax (=rent) you just lose your
"property" to the government (=landlord).
Worse yet: you also lose your property if you don't maintain it the
way the government prescribes.
You are better off in a private rental transaction , because you expect the
landlord to maintain and repair the property without cjrgomg you a cent.
Still worse: a
private landlord can not change the contract without your authorization.
The
government changes the contract (taxation) any time it wants. Period.
It
is not just a matter of good will to observe the laws, but of starting with the
repelling task of having to learn intricate rules that surprise us without our
consent, whether we like them or not.
The fact that the government needs our votes to force us to do anything is little more than a fiction, for it imposes disguised oppression whether we vote or not.
Innocence is no longer a virtue or privilege enjoyed by those who don't learn
artificial rules, like those of a game, "portfolio" maniacs or of self-important
bureaucrats.
Whereas we have the choice of ignoring the game or deciding whose rules we don't want to learn, we are forced to learn the intricacies of taxations, deductions, compounded interests, penalties, ordnances, etc.
We have clocks, instruments, appliances, vehicles, communication devises, banking operations, fees, credits, debits, time payments and hundreds of other complexities that paralyze us in muck if we don't keep up with them all.
With the time, more and more people will give up trying to keep up to date...
Many will end up losing their jobs, all sources of income, their homes, if they are not helped by simpler legislation.
Sometime one feels just like throwing the sponge in disgust and lie somewhere, until someone comes to help him, just as he has helped others for decades...
He would be told that he mudt pay such and such taxes, give certain amount of money for food, clothing, dwelling....
What
right would he have?
May
be it wouldn't be so bad if we took it the same as from a doctor who tells us what to do with the liver, pancreas, lungs, nose...
If
we feel not offended by a doctor who prescribes us a cure for the liver or lungs
through his paramedics, hoity-toity receptionists and incompetent fragile egos,
why make a fuss about taxes, contributions and fees that are certainly not as
important as our liver and lungs?
If you get completely involved in ppolitical activities as a citizen, you stillend up having to obey legislation and taxation you have votd aginst... That contaminates "freedom" with whatever is against your rejected wishes.
DECAY INVENTED BY LAW
Taxes, government regulations, city and other local ordinances, traffic laws, import‑export duties and restrictions, labor laws, environmental, commerce and industry regulations, banking and financial codes, integration and equality decrees, religious precepts, military commands, political rules.............
The above list of arbitrary limitations of our freedom is only a tiny partial string.
They
can be defined as necessary only because we cannot yet find better ways to
resolve our problems.
Their dangerous incompetence is proven by the fact that
they are being continuously corrected by legislators who are overwhelmed by the
damaging consequences.
Incompetent regulations not only limit our freedom, but our very safety.
The occurrences are not publicized, but we dedicate a shocking percentage of our time to futile disputes in parasitic courts of law, to discuss frivolous accusations by parasitic bureaucrats about artificial crimes created by their inability to understand reality (which we don't understand either), and by lawyers who profit from the mess no matter how much we lose.
Societies afflicted by these debilitating intricacies contrived by incompetent do-gooders are condemned to transform their evolution into decay, in proportion to the increase of regulations at the expense of productivity and creativity. kkk
The real criminals are those who pollute progress with absurd regulations and their unintended consequences, for which the victims ara punished or fined, not the perpetrators.
When the productivity of our creators is crippled in the morasses created by the unimaginative regulators (if they were imaginative, they would be facilitators rather than regulators), the mediocre majority of our society demands more crippling regulations in order to increase productivity with rules created by incompetent legislators for tied and gagged entrepreneurs.
The more the entrepreneurs are tied and gagged, the more they are penalized for not dancing and singing praises to the Moloch they are going to be sacrificed to.
THE PURSUIT OF THE WHATCHAMACALLIT
A fact as valid for adults as for children is that what we pursue is not necessarily what we need.
An
adult is expected to prevent a child from obtaining what he wants, if it is bad
for the child, and to give him what is good for him instead.
No one would think of calling this adult a dictator or oppressor.
The possibility that the adult's choice for the child may be incorrect is granted, but it is not considered a reason to stop the adult from controlling the child, for adult's choices have a much lower percentage of errors that children's.
In
human society, it would be beneficial to submit the choices
of mediocre or uninformed people (that is, the vast majority) to the guidance,
or at least advise, of highly trained persons.
However, this is forbidden in the name of democracy. And rightly so, because
many adults cannot be trusted (just like the bureaucrats who are to correct the
errors and indicate the wise path).
So, unlike other nations,
we lose the opportunity of sophisticating this system into something a free nation
can accept.
The accepted argument for freedom limitations is: who judges the judges?
Yet,
we accept judges not only in courts, but in business enterprises and similar
organizations that comprise most of our society, military, police, politics,
education, sports etc. You name it.
But... where is the FREEDOM?
Uncontrolled decisions are not necessarily a natural form of freedom.
Human nature seems to be more comfortable when helped by competent directions
than in unfettered freedom.
But... what is competence?.... Do we surrender only because we don't have the
solution before we start our search?
We vote too often for those who come up with instant answers that require no reserach: "we must reduce our taxes"; "Iax the rich, not the poorw"; "We need free medical care"; "Too much crime in the streets"... and so on...
We end up voting for rhose who offer the instant sol and no facts...
PLEASE, I WANT TO BELIEVE IT
Equality, freedom and independence are arbitrary concepts. They were probably caused by imposed discrimination and oppression.
They are also in conflict with the concepts of religion, God, father, leader, achiever, hard worker, parasite.
The basic need for security is more satisfied by dependence on a good leader than by competing on equal level with him.
We like man and woman to be different; the mother teaches inequality to her children .
Competition, started in the name of equality, does away with equality.
Survival needs security and peace more than
equality.
Evolution kills equality.
Equality arrests evolution.
Progress is a form of evolution.
Building, creating, inventing, starting something, progressing, achieving,
learning... kill equality.
Even making love can kill equality and freedom... or can be killed by tjem...
Also the needs to worship, adore, idolize, follow someone are basic, ancient and coexistent in many unrelated cultures.
Freedom itself kills equality.
Many who idolize freedom also demand all kinds of securities and protection from
the government, on the basis of the concept that the government is there to
protect people and their freedom.
OXYMORONIA is the country where all those problems have instant solutions.
The
more we expect from the government, the more power the government must have to
implement what we want.
Yet,
this is best done by a dictatorial government.
Yet, the more power the government has to give us what we demand, the less power we have to demand anything.
Freedom does not thrive in the rigors of individuality and independence, which
are normally considered as premises for freedom.
What seems to satisfy individualism and independence must apparently go through
the necessary premises of self‑esteem and a sense of belonging.
These are further complicated by a need to dedicate ourselves to something to
which we can safely devote ourselves, so that something or someone will help us
whenever we need it.
We
have virtues, talents, the need to fulfill ourselves in something worthwhile
that does not disappoint us, and in association with people who are safely on
our side.
Therefore, many join anything to be associated with people with
similar goals, even if it is only for a sterile protest.
We
want to join whatever fulfills and reassures us: a religion, a party,
fraternity, the military, a club, sect, secret society, underground activities,
or even a criminal gang.
Obviously, the choice depends on the personality and
what is available.
The
need to feel devotion and acceptance has a complex relationship with our need to
exercise the virtues we know we have.
It should be easy to unite with other people to reach our goals. In fact we already have unions and associations of all kinds, who reach and exert considerable power to OBTAIN noney, favors, etc. But they cfeate a void of duties where they only satisfied rights.
Unions and professional associatioms, as well as politicians know too well that they lose membership and votes if they try to promote duties.
Socialists ans demagogues aare irresistible whem they preache for their audienee's rights, but fail when they preach h8man rightsnth duties.
An
interesting case in point is the Freemasonry.
Once very attractive because it
promised the power of unconditioal togetherness and mystical wonder, it has
lost most of its appeal after it decided to become less dedicated and more
accessible to more people who are interested only im what they can get, not in what they can give and/or produce.
So, its magnetism and power were also impaired.
The the "regular guy" is still sear ching an impenetrable mystery of life with guardians at the gate that open only against money and servitude, which opems to another door, and more doors, until a new Guillotine, and another are readied to cut more heads...
Solution?
We have no hope if we allow those two guys to come again and tell to a church audience: "Who needs history? who needs geography"?
The frustration of the inability to fulfill ourselves in a futile existence is devastating.
For many, even a life of crime is an easier alternative opportunity to express our talents, virtues and wishes.
That
leads people to accept a despot who can answers the common cry: "Tell me what I
am here for, promise me something, give a meaning to my life, and I will follow
you anywhere".
Wonder why they followed Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden, and were ready to die for
either?
For thousands of years, a reliable fulfillment was found in family, religion and some form of patriotism, mostly in that order.
Now, all three are being eroded, without anything able to take their place.
Entire civilizations have perished for that reason before.
Sophistication has now taken the easy form of self‑deprecation and blaming others.
Formerly, the pride in one's own achievements and peers' group was the normal means to preserve them.
This
became hubris and presumption by those who inherited the results of the
achievements without earning them.
The ensuing backlash induced the fashion
of humility that degenerated in self- deprecation...
Again: decay.
Both dictatorship and freedom are condemned to decay by popularization.
An old saying creeps back: "The worst is the corruption of the best".
CONDITIONAL FREEDOM
Freedom is a vague word for an arbitrary concept.
In human environment, freedom exists only for those who are in agreement with the local social or political system.
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 a.d.): "A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the
same".
Fine,
but it is severely limited to those who really understand it.
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Liberty ends up being an opinion, not a fact.
We are prisoners of our prejudices and
delusions when we think we are free to speak or act.
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Freedom is a delusion.
We are born prisoners of our bodies, genes, heritage,
country, language, history, religion.
Even when we free ourselves of some of
them, we can only do it with the means we have.
Our "free will" is also
conditioned by factors not of our choice.
"Yes, but what I mean is...".
There we go again...
‑ The more TV succeeds in "educating" us, the more our freedom and dignity are diminished.
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Justice, freedom, rights, happiness are our primitive misconceptions of a cosmic
reality we don't understand.
Their failure is proven best when they are fully
achieved: the goal vanishes when it has been reached.
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One of the greatest sources of happiness is in the belief in devotion to, a
lord, god or leader.
That frees the individual from the responsibility of deciding, undertaking,
producing and
delivering according to any expectations.
As noble as the latter may be, it is a source of oppressive worry and
frustrating discontent.
With
this premise, the hierarchical and autocratic society (presumably) offers the best chance of
happiness to its members who believe in the prescribed structure, obedience and
submission.
In that, religion offers the ultimate help.
In a
free society, even the people who believe and understand religion most are never free
of strife and confrontation.
To
worship, or to depend on, someone seems to be an elemental need.
Thus, freedom and individuality may be interpreted as being against nature and
happiness.
Therefore, feminism, racial integration, equal rights cause more hostility than
the cure of the evil they are presumed to fight.
‑ Freedom has too many limits: genetics, where, when and from whom we are born, to start with; our lifespan, genetic intelligence, skills, ailments, size, obesity, physical appearance, emotions...
Compared to them, political freedom and equality "in front of the law" are ridiculous.
"Freedom of speech", "equal opportunities"... are delusions.
On the other hand, the psychiatrist Victor Frankel asserts that not even under torture and in chains we lose our "most important freedom: how we interpret it".
If so, the concept of freedom is a rationalization of wishful thinking.
‑ Freedom tends to produce progress. Progress tends to limit freedom.
‑ Freedom is in voluntary conformity with the prevailing belief.
‑ Freedom is only a step after liberation, and a step before the loss of freedom caused by the exercise of freedom.
‑ Pursuit of freedom may be seen as fear of judgment and disapproval.
‑ Equality and liberty exclude each‑other for they are mortal enemies.
‑ Many more than we like to believe have no use for freedom, for they prefer to have masters who protect them and tell them what to do.
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Ultimate freedom knows neither good nor evil.
Good and evil come from rules and
laws.
Rules and laws limit freedom, even when they are made to protect freedom.
They become respectable by calling "licentiousness" (often with good reasons) the freedom they want to
limit.
‑ Life and freedom go beyond morality, good/evil and right/wrong. They are for existence, survival and evolution.
‑ Free development without the discipline of learning can only proceed at the slow pace of evolution, not with the mutational rhythm of education.
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The "freedom/equality" approach in the cultural world has deprived it of solid
content.
Therefore, the interested uneducated hippies are considered on the same
level of truly learned college professors.
Many of them are now tenured college professors; that is. built-in cultural
cancer.
‑ The more we know about right and wrong, the more we tend to limit our freedom.
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More and more young people are seen going with intentionally torn pants
(especially in the knee area) with the crotch far below the body's crotch, or other intentionally damaged
and distorting clothing.
Many wear underclothing-type garments over the outer-garments.
Some
walk with long laces hanging loose on the shoes and other deliberate unkemptness
as symbols of freedom and independence.
In reality, the phenomenon is body language for prolonged childhood, deferred maturity.
It
is a "freedom" method that fixated ingrained childish postures that are the more
difficult to remove the longer they persist.
Whereas a child would overcome
those forms of unkemptness naturally, an addict to those forms of infantilism
would have much to unlearn and would be forced to concentrate on childish tasks
in adulthood.
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Our freedom need is often a confession of ignorance, not of wisdom.
We need freedom
only because we cannot trust the dictates of our knowledge.
The debates
generated by opposite views diminish the danger posed by wrong decisions.
If
we knew enough, dictatorship with well meaning wisdom would be decidedly
superior to the futile bickering of the adversary system.
We don't know enough, when logic can only argue without end.
‑ We cannot support belief in the 1st Amendment to suppress other beliefs.
The 1st Amendment is distorted to muzzle and persecute opinions the current civilrightniks dislike.
Free speech should make ideas open to criticism, but it is used to suppress unfashionable criticism.
‑ Equating free speech with approval of deleterious postures is a present excess.
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