“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”
― Voltaire
I have begun to winch a little bit every time I hear about someone trying to get equal rights from their government. They do not understand what they are doing. What they in fact are doing is asking and / or demanding recognition of their rights. NO ONE has to ask for rights that are inherent to us by the universe. As soon as we ask permission from the government or anyone else to be allowed to do anything than we are affirming our subservience to that government and allowing one more infringement on our freedom.
I find it a bit sad how easily we are willing to give up our freedom. We do it by asking for permission to be ourselves and we do it when someone fails to recognize our rights and we turn ourselves into their victims.
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
– Sigmund Freud.
I find it a bit sad how easily we are willing to give up our freedom. We do it by asking for permission to be ourselves and we do it when someone fails to recognize our rights and we turn ourselves into their victims. It seems that this lack of ability to recognize and take responsibility for the freedom of another is the fundamental illness that individuals and societies fall prey to.
It’s an interesting point. I am for the self-regulation in that matter. We can not be absolutely free living in a society. Freud here, as to me, distracts and destructs some notions. People are not freighted with the responsibility – they don’t want to be responsible in some cases and are afraid of consequences of their wrong decisions. Responsibility and devotion are the most fundamental things for the human beings. If one doesn’t have them one isn’t free actually, though it seems like truthful vice versa at first sight. So many issues can be disputable and controversial.
“afraid of consequences of their wrong decisions. ”
I was discussing this with a friend just this evening… In the context of children.. My friend works with adults with disabilities. Here in British Columbia, they went to great effort to move folks out of institutions and into the community. Now there is a percentage of the parents of self-advocates with the best of intentions seek to practically reverse this, buying buildings to set up co-ops with staff that all too easily will become a new form of institution mainly out of fear of their children making the same kind of decisions that all young adults make and that they made themselves.
This attempt to save our children from consequences of their wrong decisions tends to be true of most parents and yet for many of us it was the only way we could learn.
Energy Rising by G A Rosenberg
I like the quote and artwork. A true quote if we open our eyes and mind.
Thank You
I love the point you are making — we do not have to ask for what we already have–asking means we do not have it
and that we are putting someone else in the position of believing that it is theirs to give to us.. YES
Good post, G!
Thank you, Agnes <3
It’s an interesting point. I am for the self-regulation in that matter. We can not be absolutely free living in a society. Freud here, as to me, distracts and destructs some notions. People are not freighted with the responsibility – they don’t want to be responsible in some cases and are afraid of consequences of their wrong decisions. Responsibility and devotion are the most fundamental things for the human beings. If one doesn’t have them one isn’t free actually, though it seems like truthful vice versa at first sight. So many issues can be disputable and controversial.
“afraid of consequences of their wrong decisions. ”
I was discussing this with a friend just this evening… In the context of children.. My friend works with adults with disabilities. Here in British Columbia, they went to great effort to move folks out of institutions and into the community. Now there is a percentage of the parents of self-advocates with the best of intentions seek to practically reverse this, buying buildings to set up co-ops with staff that all too easily will become a new form of institution mainly out of fear of their children making the same kind of decisions that all young adults make and that they made themselves.
This attempt to save our children from consequences of their wrong decisions tends to be true of most parents and yet for many of us it was the only way we could learn.
Thank you.