What Is Freedom?

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I believe freedom to be an absolutely relative condition, and an artistic notion. The artistic or philosophical nature of the idea makes it very difficult to grasp, and very difficult to create. It is more difficult still to structure a society around the concept of freedom. There are many different views of the concept of freedom. I believe this to be a virtue of the idea. Freedom is an individual notion, so to an extent we create our own freedom. However, since it is so independent, it can be defined as the dependency of consensus. We can be truly free alone, but together we are as free as the consensus. Speaking as an American, the consensus that was attempted a few centuries ago was that the only way to uphold freedom is to uphold …show more content…
Today we have more chances than ever to be "free" with nearly unlimited access to information at our finger tips we can be very relatively free compared to those in history and to those without basic technology. Due to technology that can place thoughts in our heads, owned by those few, there are programs such as the Monarch Mind Control, and other insidious elements that enslave our minds, controlled by those few. As long as they have power to use these elements, along with having control of our experience and understanding, we can never be free. Besides these all use money to maintain their control. An example would be a child born in America is freer than a child born in West Africa... Not because one is better or because one is anything different. It was just random chance vs. determined factors. Freedom is such a broad idea, it has to be relative. Making true freedom a falsehood without every person being able to know where to look for any piece of data, any time, any place, for any reason, which collectively we do not want unless everyone is pursuing singularity. A world designed for everyone to live equally could rationalize that freedom will be more likely. However, our separated factors of freedom create biases in thinking which push us further from freedom. I believe freedom is more complicated and encompasses many levels so that the answer to you question would be yes and no for

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