Two Concepts Of Freedom Essay

The Trap, documentary series, has guided the pathways that the past decades has been dominated by a narrow and depressing view of freedom, upon the assumption of rationality and a distrust of political leadership. As Adam Curtis, has led the understanding both the nature of freedom itself, and the definition between what has been delivered by the political leaders and what individuals has been crying out for. Literally, ‘Freedom’ in the unfree world is the opportunity to live your life as you want to live, and never be suppressed by laws, slogans, or any commandments. But in this context, The Two Concepts of Liberty, introduced by the political philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, has coloured the two different pictures of freedom, which are; the Positive and Negative liberty. Seeing into each picture, it describes the Positive liberty as people take direct and active control of destiny, as he gave an example that people were too stupid to appreciate freedom, hence the state must force them to be free by using terror to force the changes, in order to make a better society. Negative liberty, in the other ways around, is freedom that inherited with no active effort towards any specific goal, or freedom that unchained us from the coercion by others …show more content…
Unsurprisingly, that unemployment, inequality, and poverty through the process of globalization have become increasingly blamed on individuals rather than on the structural constraints. Still, the outward attractiveness of individual freedom, prosperity, and growth makes it defying for the public sphere to realise that Neoliberalism is designed to benefit only a very small class of people. In fact, such a worldview also makes it easier to justify the thought that some people are deserving of much more than others because, after all, it is a common refrain that we are all responsible for our own