ON FREEDOM

Now then, there is an illusion of freedom and there is the true experience of freedom. Freedom actually is not being trapped in illusions. So, those two are racing away from each other at the speed of light squared! Dylan wondered in song, Are birds ever free from the chains of the skyway? That is saying that if jumping over the moon is freedom and if you can what about jumping over Mars? And so on and on. 

I do not want. That is freedom. I want not water for there is more than enough. I do not want food for there is more than enough. I do not want air for there is more than enough of it. I do not want sunshine for there is always enough for everybody. That means I am content. Satisfied.

People who spend fortunes on clothes never cease talking about those times they let themselves take them off and get laid. Why bother?

You may say that there may be enough water but I may not be able to find it. Yes? Well, we are living thousands of years into a way of life that led most of us to kill others of us just to keep a supply of water and food and a territory where we can settle down in the illusion we have enough and protect with weapons our family from them and others like them. When we run short, we attack. Kill. Rape. Plunder. Lie. Cheat. Deceive. Steal. Gamble. Trick. Threaten. Coerce. Charm. So, by now, we mostly do not know how many times we turned one way instead of another and lost our capability to find what we need that is right under our feet and over our heads. We forgot. That is the source of illusion and that is the real loss of real freedom. And, by now, we have a list longer than the Milky Way of crap we want. Of kindness, honesty, integrity, dignity, courage we are unladen and poor indeed.