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So I think we have a problem of sheep mentality when it comes to freedom. People often say, "yeaaah I get to vote". So what? Is that freedom?
This very act of voting is an example of power being exercized. We often mistakenly take acts as tokens of freedom when it simply hasn't got anything to do with it. How does voting make you free?
We can vote, so it means there is a system already in place that forces us to make a decision between voting and not voting. Of course you can take the course of rebelling against the idea of voting and denounce the system, but in order for you to do that, the system and the idea of it must be in place, otherwise you couldn't be against it in the first place, thus I challenge the idea of freedom in it.
It is not freedom to be able to resist it in the first place. It is merely saying that we won't shoot you for having a different opinion on this particular issue. It's not freedom to not be shot or jailed. Neither is being shot or being jailed.
Freedom would be to be able to live outside the power of this idea of voting where it has no stake in your life.
We often mistake the act of something as being the concept itself, and that's what I mean by sheep mentality. We are easily controlled. We always function within the framework that has been created by men. I'm not talking about conspiracies, but we can't act outside our knowledge or what we know and thus we can be controlled by the amount of knowledge and options given to us.
To realize this is the basic key to exercize of power. Today we are controlled by many things. The knowledge of the self is ever changing by the concepts and information given to us by the institutions of power. Those institutions would be the government, schools and so forth but these days it's also more and more businesses with marketing, setting out what is normal and what is abnormal. People want to be normal, so they will normalize themselves, so in the act of normalizing themselves they buy something or behave in a certain "accepted" way.
It is in the act that makes us fools for thinking the solution lies in. For centuries the European countries used to torture their suspected prisoners for crimes they either commited or didn't commit. It was accepted, that in the process of finding the truth, we can torture prisoners. So, this defines the very act of torture as the act of finding the truth, where as the punishment for the crime coudl also be torture. So torture was the process as well as the punishment later on, quite paradoxical if you think about it. Courts were very much informed that often innocent ones would plead guilty because they were tortured.
One of the greater acts of justice was when a prisoner was tortured to death. You'd torture them, and this process was codified and there were rules and guides how to do it properly for it to be juridicial torture, and at the very end, when the prisoner would cry and ask for mercy... this was the very climax of the whole process. They had just shown the guilty ones remorce and correction of the attitude and everything, this was a pivotal moment, a key to justice. Then you'd either give them mercy and kill them or continue torturing, depending what the sentence was. But the almost theatric like moment was what was wanted, it was in the act itself. But what does it have to do with truth, what does it have to do with justice?
The same way with freedom, make no mistake about it. Freedom is often mistaken as the ... something human nature urges. Even if we want to install sharia, well, if I'm for sharia and it's the way I want to live my life, and I see these tyrannies who would not allow it, even more so outside forces giving us something different and something we hate, it could be mistaken as pursuing your own freedom to install that sharia by force. Because it's in the act.
We see people tearing down the statues etc of old dictators or demolishing what reminds them of the old times, and that feels good, but that's not freedom or taking you to it. But we mistake it is some kind of manifestation of the need for it or freedom in action itself.
But one thing remains the same. Someone is always using power in these situations, and it is the very same entity that tells us we deserve our freedom, no matter what form it takes. And people get excited and ready to what ever it takes, but you never see actually leaders limiting their own powers after the fact. You are always going to be within a system or an ideology, and you can either play by the rules or play against the rules, but the very fact that you're playing means you are being subjected to outside power and the more free you think you are, the less likely you are to be actually free.
This very act of voting is an example of power being exercized. We often mistakenly take acts as tokens of freedom when it simply hasn't got anything to do with it. How does voting make you free?
We can vote, so it means there is a system already in place that forces us to make a decision between voting and not voting. Of course you can take the course of rebelling against the idea of voting and denounce the system, but in order for you to do that, the system and the idea of it must be in place, otherwise you couldn't be against it in the first place, thus I challenge the idea of freedom in it.
It is not freedom to be able to resist it in the first place. It is merely saying that we won't shoot you for having a different opinion on this particular issue. It's not freedom to not be shot or jailed. Neither is being shot or being jailed.
Freedom would be to be able to live outside the power of this idea of voting where it has no stake in your life.
We often mistake the act of something as being the concept itself, and that's what I mean by sheep mentality. We are easily controlled. We always function within the framework that has been created by men. I'm not talking about conspiracies, but we can't act outside our knowledge or what we know and thus we can be controlled by the amount of knowledge and options given to us.
To realize this is the basic key to exercize of power. Today we are controlled by many things. The knowledge of the self is ever changing by the concepts and information given to us by the institutions of power. Those institutions would be the government, schools and so forth but these days it's also more and more businesses with marketing, setting out what is normal and what is abnormal. People want to be normal, so they will normalize themselves, so in the act of normalizing themselves they buy something or behave in a certain "accepted" way.
It is in the act that makes us fools for thinking the solution lies in. For centuries the European countries used to torture their suspected prisoners for crimes they either commited or didn't commit. It was accepted, that in the process of finding the truth, we can torture prisoners. So, this defines the very act of torture as the act of finding the truth, where as the punishment for the crime coudl also be torture. So torture was the process as well as the punishment later on, quite paradoxical if you think about it. Courts were very much informed that often innocent ones would plead guilty because they were tortured.
One of the greater acts of justice was when a prisoner was tortured to death. You'd torture them, and this process was codified and there were rules and guides how to do it properly for it to be juridicial torture, and at the very end, when the prisoner would cry and ask for mercy... this was the very climax of the whole process. They had just shown the guilty ones remorce and correction of the attitude and everything, this was a pivotal moment, a key to justice. Then you'd either give them mercy and kill them or continue torturing, depending what the sentence was. But the almost theatric like moment was what was wanted, it was in the act itself. But what does it have to do with truth, what does it have to do with justice?
The same way with freedom, make no mistake about it. Freedom is often mistaken as the ... something human nature urges. Even if we want to install sharia, well, if I'm for sharia and it's the way I want to live my life, and I see these tyrannies who would not allow it, even more so outside forces giving us something different and something we hate, it could be mistaken as pursuing your own freedom to install that sharia by force. Because it's in the act.
We see people tearing down the statues etc of old dictators or demolishing what reminds them of the old times, and that feels good, but that's not freedom or taking you to it. But we mistake it is some kind of manifestation of the need for it or freedom in action itself.
But one thing remains the same. Someone is always using power in these situations, and it is the very same entity that tells us we deserve our freedom, no matter what form it takes. And people get excited and ready to what ever it takes, but you never see actually leaders limiting their own powers after the fact. You are always going to be within a system or an ideology, and you can either play by the rules or play against the rules, but the very fact that you're playing means you are being subjected to outside power and the more free you think you are, the less likely you are to be actually free.
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