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9 years ago
I'm curious. For anyone interested in answering, what is a personal freedom that you are unable to partake in on a daily basis. Honestly, I didn't realize one until this morning on my day off from work. It could literally be anything.
Personally, I realized today that something I'm not able to do every day because of professional obligations is letting my hair free.
I keep my hair long. If I tilt my head back even slightly, I can feel the longer strands on my lower back. It may not seem like a big deal, but when you work as much as I do, and have to keep hair that long tied up and tucked away in a STUPID FUCKIN' HAT then you tend to notice when you can untie it and let it flow free.
Personally, I realized today that something I'm not able to do every day because of professional obligations is letting my hair free.
I keep my hair long. If I tilt my head back even slightly, I can feel the longer strands on my lower back. It may not seem like a big deal, but when you work as much as I do, and have to keep hair that long tied up and tucked away in a STUPID FUCKIN' HAT then you tend to notice when you can untie it and let it flow free.
the trade off between the time to do what i would want the money for, and the time slice of indenture it would take to earn it.
i'm lucky to have the income that i have, and the time it enables my creativity.
freedom to build things i know how to, without the need to obtain permits and licenses for everything, and again, that i would have to own land and indenture myself in order to do so.
the lack of freedom for unarmed civilians to cross national borders impulsively and without hassle, while the movement of manufactured goods and raw materials is far less hindered.
that i have to pay rent or mortgage, to live in shelter less then gratifying or suitable to my personal interests and perspective, because of not being allowed to live in what i could build for a fraction of the cost, and far more gratifying to my creative nature, out of what i could buy at the hardware store, (and even with materials found in situ) even on my miniscule pension, without indenturing myself to owning land, which is itself, a kind of ego fantasy that humans have some preemptive right, over that of all other living creatures, to exclusively do so.
policies of governments are the hinge, but they are also driven by the values of prevailing cultures.
and a culture which equates thoughtlessness with freedom, is one that by doing so, consumes and destroys its own.
this has very little to do with laws or the policies of governments, and everything to do with a culture of thoughtlessness.
many losses of freedom are simply the result of the ratio between an excessive human population,
and the resources it consumes.
but a culture of thoughtlessness and self agrandisement, robs more freedoms then anything else.
not that the tyrannies of governments can't too,
but there seems to be a serious competition between the two of them to do so.