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The fear of freedom
I often think about freedom in an almost outside looking in perspective. I know the freedom I dream of, but I’m not sure how to realize it. In some respects, I don’t think the world is ready for my definition of freedom, and I know I couldn’t get elected for any office on my platform, because I would offend too many people. If I spoke my true feelings on freedom, I would be branded an anarchist, a reactionary, a lunatic, and maybe worst of all in the eyes of many , a sinner. Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” Freedom goes beyond having the ability to act freely with an individual interest in mind, but also with a far-reaching goal in mind. Aside from the obvious choices we make on a host of issues that are fairly easily resolved, there are many issues we struggle with. And it is in consideration of those reactions to problems that seem to be “no-win” or “can’t win” situation, it might be prudent to examine, theorize, experiment, and if necessary, reform the fundamental thought processes we are currently employing. This week in the spotlight is the question of the minimum drinking age which has surfaced because of a call to reconsider lowering it, but other problems which fall into the category are not easily solved and represent battles that we have not won, such as the so-called war on drugs, drowning, cancer, aids, the right to life, and the right to death, tolerance, racial hatred, bias, sexual crime, violent crime, poverty and wrs between nations. These types of problems require a vast amount freedom to be solved. We need the freedom to examine and assess all the possible theories on solving our greatest problems, we need to be able to listen to all those theories, and then have the courage to embark on a new and unknown path. We also need the courage to trust in human nature, the peaceful, positive side of it, and give people the freedom to make their own well-thought, well-informed, knowledgeable decisions, and then take full responsibility as individual adults for those decisions. Another Roosevelt quote, perhaps his most famous, words which launched a generation the incomprhensible task of restoring peace to the empirical world of the mid-twentieth century: “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” That’s really it in a nutshell. Freedom is all about getting over the fear. Getting passed the fear of what freedom might unleash. William S. James, Free to care |
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