Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Freedom Pizza
Freedom these days sucks. As in the novel, it has become fake. Like a rat in a maze, we are free to go anywhere but within limits. True freedom has never been achieved, but it's illusion has brainwashed billions into thinking it is awesome. In our lives, we are not free to do much. The law governs our freedom and takes it away in the form of school. They separate us from the rest of the world and take away our rights for seven hours a day kind of just as is done to the handmaids. Freedom is not freedom anymore. If freedom really existed, we could do whatever we want whenever we want without consequence. Unfortunately, it does not exist and has had boundaries wrapped all around it. Laws limit people from doing what they want. If I was truly free, I could crack a beer, slap the Diggity Dogg guy, and take a dump on the steps of the Courthouse. Too bad I would get arrested for it. I should be able to do what I want in a country that was created because of freedom, but instead the government has tried to hypnotize everyone into thinking confinement and regulation is freedom. Like in the story, we are not free. The handmaids and people of Gilead are stuck in a false free world that sucks. Freedom isn't freedom, but instead is confinement with the ability to do some things but not all. It's totally lame.
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Without limitations we would be an anarchy don't you think? Deviance shows what is wrong and what is right; it keeps things in order.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't we need school? We need education to succeed in the world. That's what they're preparing us for. Although I must say half the things they do teach in school we'll never use. They should teach us how to do taxes and raise babies and work.
^ j delves, pro
ReplyDeleteyou are mistaken. There is freedom but to choose freedom you also have to choose what comes with which is consequence. The civil rights movement didnt acheive freedom by saying that i was an allusion or doesnt exist. Freedom exists but in order to be free it has to be outside the boundries of what our normal living is. its not the freedom doesnt exist its that your too scared to actually live that way.
ReplyDeleteYeah i mean if we had full freedom, i could just head outside shoot the first women i see, do with her what i will, the gutt her quater her, skin her, put in my freezer and eat her when ever i choose to, its really a shame we dont have that kid of freedom. Absolute freedom would be a horrible thing to have. I am not against cracking a beer, slapping the Diggity Dogg guy, nor take a dumping on the steps of the Courthouse. But unforchanately there are crazy, horrid, and monstrous people out there. its a nice thought. Your still pro
ReplyDeleteI agree that we have been decieved into believeing that we have a lot more freedom than we really do, like in the book, but at the same time there has to be some guidelines for what is acceptable. Or if there wasn't guidelines you would have to be ok with the repercussions, if you slapped the diggty dog guy and he kicked your ass would have to be ok with it which i am fine with, but there would definitley be repercussions.
ReplyDeletehis is true that freedom will always have limitations, but these limitations are necessary to protect freedom itself, in the book, the government hasn't really sought to protect freedom but rather to protect the people in power, which is a sign of a bad government when the people power need extreme protection. This is why our government makes a lot of sense, it creates a balance in which we are free to go out and make a living and be as successful as we want and go where we want and do what we want within the limits of the law, the law being necessary to preserve these abilities through stopping foul play.
ReplyDeletei feel like we all have different definitions of just what exactly freedom is. if everyone did as they pleased, what would happen? Wait, first, what is freedom?
ReplyDeleteJackson,
ReplyDeleteWell, your rant certainly engendered some interesting (and, in some cases, Austin, SCARY) comment. At the risk of repeating my comment on Ali's blog (I tend to work my way through these backwards) I'm surprised by how much so many (but not all, tellingly) of your peers chafe at relatively minor restrictions when, in fact, you guys have more opportunities/freedoms than most people your age in the world. I guess no matter how large we make the maze, it still feels like a constraint.