Declaration of Independence
Free Freedom
01/July/2009 15:27 Filed in: Weekly
Column
This Saturday marks the 233rd anniversary of the
signing of the Declaration of Independence in the
land that became the United States of America. It
is pretty well established these men believed that
with their signatures they were setting a course
for a form of government that would alter many
future political structures. They also realized
that their very lives were pledged to make this
experiment in personal liberty a reality. There was
no turning back.
This week there will be various forms of speeches, articles, blogs, and just plain conversations that express the point that “freedom isn’t free.” Of course the people making these statements mean that freedom requires some sort of effort to remain a viable, or even to generate an expanding form of expression of the human spirit.
The interesting thought in all of this is “if freedom isn’t free” why to we go to such great lengths to limit freedom in all aspects of life? Why not just “Free Freedom?”
There a bumper stickers that say, “Free Tibet” and other sorts of free lands, objects, animals, and social groups, but no one seems all that interested in just “Free Freedom.”
The real reason we don’t want to Free Freedom is because in order to Free Freedom we have to give up our personal license. Put more simply, Free Freedom is a whole greater than its parts. In order for Freedom to become Free, I have to give, or surrender my Freedom license to you, and the other way around. By doing such, a sort of synergistic Freedom is created which is much more grand that just each of our respective Free parts.
While none of us have really ever experienced Free Freedom, we know it is an awesome thing. In fact Free Freedom might not be a thing at all, but must be described as a beyond human personality. This personality we cannot comprehend, but must apprehend, or probably more correctly, we will be apprehended by Free Freedom himself.
To show how un-free we have become it would no longer be politically correct to describe Free Freedom as a him, even though grammatically and historically him includes her. Hence the bondage to Free Freedom will apprehend our personhood.
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This week there will be various forms of speeches, articles, blogs, and just plain conversations that express the point that “freedom isn’t free.” Of course the people making these statements mean that freedom requires some sort of effort to remain a viable, or even to generate an expanding form of expression of the human spirit.
The interesting thought in all of this is “if freedom isn’t free” why to we go to such great lengths to limit freedom in all aspects of life? Why not just “Free Freedom?”
There a bumper stickers that say, “Free Tibet” and other sorts of free lands, objects, animals, and social groups, but no one seems all that interested in just “Free Freedom.”
The real reason we don’t want to Free Freedom is because in order to Free Freedom we have to give up our personal license. Put more simply, Free Freedom is a whole greater than its parts. In order for Freedom to become Free, I have to give, or surrender my Freedom license to you, and the other way around. By doing such, a sort of synergistic Freedom is created which is much more grand that just each of our respective Free parts.
While none of us have really ever experienced Free Freedom, we know it is an awesome thing. In fact Free Freedom might not be a thing at all, but must be described as a beyond human personality. This personality we cannot comprehend, but must apprehend, or probably more correctly, we will be apprehended by Free Freedom himself.
To show how un-free we have become it would no longer be politically correct to describe Free Freedom as a him, even though grammatically and historically him includes her. Hence the bondage to Free Freedom will apprehend our personhood.
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