Summary...

• We are born dependent on our social reality
• We are born enslaved by our genetic beliefs
• Political freedom is thus a sham
• But our own technology could yet set us free
  

There is no freedom, because man is born a slave.

Enslaved by the needs of his body upon a shared social environment. He might seize claim to his air, but only because no one has yet found reason to privatize it.

As for the rest, he must negotiate with the only thing he has to offer - his life and what he can do with his body.

He inherits rules from prior generations enforced by social shame and by social violence and must negotiate his way to survival and happiness through them.

He is further enslaved by his genetics, which create his emotions from pre-programmed aesthetics. What he will later discover that he loves and he hates.

These remain a hidden secret to him until they arise in his environment and trigger emotion.

So what is freedom?

Traditional freedom lies in the battleground between his genetically derived aesthetics, and the competitive social environment he finds himself trapped.

If he loses his battles, his emotions will torment him until his death, by a society at odds with his aesthetics. Violating his inner most being.

If he wins, if his social environment becomes perfectly aligned to his inner aesthetics. Potentially like on the star trek holodeck. He'd become satiated and dull. Having nothing more to hope for, yet everything to fear. His remaining glimpses of joy, due mainly to the failures of his own mind. Did I eat chocolate a moment ago, or was it long enough for me to forget of its taste?

Outward freedom requires more than total sovereignty over his surroundings. It requires an environment that can expose him to his own hidden desires. If no music is ever made, none can ever be heard. If chocolate is never made, it can never be tasted. So even his inner most fears and desires require an environment where someone had the freedom to discover them first. The artists and creators among us.

Inner freedom, requires a mind free from aesthetics. Free of being told by our emotions what is good and what is bad.

But such total freedom leaves us cold to passion. Where everything is perfectly OK just the way it is. We have neither motivation to think nor to act.

Bliss is 90% anticipation, as is suffering. Emotion is due in part, to the failure of our own mind to fully imagine.

If people were wise enough to know, they'd realize they don't necessarily want to be free. Either in their inner world or their outer. Because total freedom would lead eventually to either satiation and apathy or to suffering and despair.

Where ironically, success (having everything) leads to fear (contemplating their loss) and where failure (having nothing) leads to hope (dreams of paradise).

And where total freedom (from our aesthetics), leads to states indistinguishable from death.

Emotion lies hidden in the nether-land between remembering and forgetting. Between knowing and not knowing.

Rationally, we should seek to find and to serve a more legitimate higher cause than our outward social environment or our inward personal aesthetics.

An authority of both wisdom and power.

Such is often faked by religion & politics. But there is only one authentic source of such power.

And it is the reason the wise seek to know truth.

But to many, truth is just a wrapper for their beliefs and their prejudices.

But through his technology, mankind is gradually awakening to his greater truth and to his destiny.