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Free Freedom

1 July 2009

Volume 11, Issue 26

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This Saturday marks the 233^rd 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 are bumper stickers that say, “Free Tibet” and other sorts of programs to 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 than 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 through our personal insecurity.

What we are talking about is what the Declaration of Independence calls, “Inalienable Rights.” It goes on to define those rights as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” However today we have attempted to restrict those rights so much, that I can no longer call Free Freedom a him. He is just not politically correct!

Where the sticking point today comes however, is when we realize that the Free Freedom (him) is what/who those “guys” two hundred thirty three years ago called “their Creator.” This further assumes that the “guys” assumed that their Free Freedom Creator wanted them (the guys and gals) to experience some sort of human satisfaction that the Freed Freedom Creator personality experienced freely.

This brings us back to where we started. In order to be totally free I must recognize that I’m not totally materially and totally autonomous. Hence I can’t be the jerk I really want to be and be truly free. I must also realize that I am a slave to my jerk desires. If I repeat a mantra “I am not a Jerk” ad infinitum, besides becoming very boring, it does not change either my internal, or the external reality.

What we are really discussing here is what we today call a worldview. The reason the world of man seems to be falling apart today is because it is. The modern, or post-modern worldview simply no longer functions in a real world that exists outside our enlightened delusions.

Contrary to saying that we want to live in harmony with nature, the truth is that we want to control nature to do our own bidding. Hence in order to prove the point to demonstrate that we can control “greenhouse gases” current political powers are attempting to enslave Free Freedom even more. Actually the correct term is oppress Free Freedom beyond the comprehension of even the most bumbling political hack. By replacing human freedom through the collusion of big government bureaucrats and global corporate hoi polloi, the new United States will prove that God does not exist.

This attempt to bind Free Freedom however will fail because man’s attempts to become God have always failed. Actually when you examine this eco-salvation religion realistically it is not all that sophisticated. In context it is a simple model of entropic inertia. It can’t go anywhere for there is really no energy source to get it started or to drive it forward.

So when it fails what then?

So far conservatives when commenting on the Reign of Obama have pretty much countered by saying we need to return to the Reign of Reagan. However the Reign of Reagan, as it reached its zenith under the Reign of Bush is the reason the Reign of Obama got its chance.

Liberal spin says that this Reign of Obama will show that the New Deal of Roosevelt will finally issue in the United States of Utopia. The United States of Utopia defined, as a place where reality is what the elite liberals hope it should be.

What the facts are is that the New Deal may have caused the Great Depression to last for a decade longer that it should because of big government policies and only disappeared because of the utopian misadventures of Adolph Hitler.

On the other sided of the coin, the Reagan Revolution lasted a decade longer than it should have because it neglected needed government infrastructure and supervision and fostered the illusion of prolonged prosperity by cheap money creation and excessive exported debt subsidies.

So now we are out of gas – and the price of gas is controlled by unregulated speculators, unregulated international oil companies, and an unregulated oil cartel.

Furthermore, the problems of the United States look almost trivial compared to the rest of the world. The old saying “everything is spinning out of control” seems to apply, except for the fact that spinning would seem to be an improvement over what is now happening. In reality things seem to be just collapsing because the glue, or mortar, or the cohesion that held everything together – isn’t.

Back to Free Freedom and the American Declaration of Independence. Before the Creator gave individuals the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, there was a big kahuna that we seem to have miss placed more than we have ignored the others. That is that all the good stuff, and even the Creator, were “self-evident.”

Self-evident only applies to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Just as you can’t see the world as it really is with tinted glasses of any color, you can’t hear what others have to say if you spend all the time bloviating or developing your bloviating talking points.

Einstein may have developed a theory of relativity for the natural world, but he never succeeded in developing a general theory. In the same way in human interactions if you are so busy trying to define your own originality and unique personality, there is no time left to comprehend the unique diversity of others. In other words in a wonderful world, you have no definition for wonder.

Wonder how to truly set Free Freedom? Look outside yourself. Start with a potential hypothesis that there is a Creator out there who made it all. The first reality that follows is you are not Him (we’ve been down that path). Then look as to see if you can find something you think is self-evident. If it truly is (self-evident) then others will share that same Truth. That Truth is a basis for a dialog in which we can begin to defined some universal specific inalienable rights.

There is currently a debate in the United States concerning healthcare. Some with say that that is an inalienable right (and hence must be provided by the government). Others will say that it is an inalienable right (to be able to choose your own healthcare, or lack there of). Here we have an inalienable impasse.

What most people can agree upon is that healthcare is too expensive and many people are not covered because they cannot afford the premiums for some reason. If you exclude the minority who by choice take advantage of the current system, you are still left with a process by which healthcare is rationed to some group at the literal expense of others.

Depending on your perspective, America’s healthcare system is probably the best or worst example of Free Freedom you can find. For the most part you are either covered for everything down to hangnails or you have nothing. Most people are generally healthy and try to take care of themselves end up subsiding the small minority who are not. Furthermore there is no incentives or liabilities, financial or otherwise, for those who’s bad choices will force them to pay for their folly.

Not mixed into the equation is a potential catastrophic financial liability that can within a short period of time, cash out a lifetime of wise financial investments and healthy living. All this so that only those procedures or drugs that are profitable receive favorable emphasis by those who would rather continue to see Free Freedom in healthcare regulatory chains.

The whole healthcare system works so well we should make it a model for all the other insurance modern life dictates. Then and only then, we could all work full time to pay our insurance bills and there would be no Free Freedom left to buy consumer stuff or do fun things like pay more taxes, hassle with government bureaucracies, and get ripped off by unknowable free market manipulators.

Free Freedom is a concept that will again find fertile soil in which to grow once the majority of the detritus from this last phase of human enlightened wizardry is composted. As American’s celebrate the day in which Free Freedom was first codified, we can faithfully believe that in the proper season, those fertile seeds will again germinate and a following harvest will ensue, not only in the United States, but that prosperity will grow around the world.

Have a blessed Independence Day weekend, and remember Free Freedom!