Free Will

Freedom.

That is the only thing that man's agreed upon. In modern days, we've decided that, since it's no longer in fashion to simply order around people and force them to go fight to their deaths in some foreign place (a noticeable moment in a man's evolution in history has been the moment when so many millions of people had died that he finally asked himself -- "Why?"). As I was saying, as that is no longer an option for politicians to use and abuse, then it's the opposite -- give everybody free will. And then of course, manipulate it.

Recently, I, and probably many many other people who are far more intelligent/ older than me, have realized that neither man, nor woman likes being free.

Freedom is something we've rarely truly possessed and when we do finally have it, it becomes something we like to see blasted into pieces... We're horrified by the idea that it can be taken away, because we've all agreed that it is our duty to pass it on to others willingly. I can almost hear somebody calling out on the market, "Want my freedom? 4.99$, only today! Buy me, get my children for free!"

We've decided that if we'll visit Death earlier than our bodies would expect, then it might as well be our choice instead of somebody else. It might actually be something we want to do. We're tired of dying for other causes that aren't ours. We're tired of having to travel the Globe because a man whose name is now used as a curse word in some places has the inner urge to show the people from the Middle east that his **** is bigger than theirs. Retardedly slow, yes, but eventually, we did it. We've made the step not to want our freedom taken.

So now that we've figured out we don't want some evil despot above our heads dictating our every move, what do we do with our new-found freedom?

Why, give it to somebody, say a freedom adviser, who will use it wisely. Or at least, he tells us so.

It is just so simple when you don't have to make the choices -- when you leave that to someone else, when you leave your freedom to someone else. Then, if he/she screws up, we can blame him/ her as well! And, of course, if we can't blame him/her, we can always blame God, just in case so that we're sure we aren't the ones who made the choices. I could give examples here, but the issue at hand isn't about what is consistently thrown at us as information, it isn't in what I know, what we all know. It's in what we don't know. And the fact that we don't want to know. Because knowing makes things harder and ignorance is bliss, or so the knowledgeable say. Knowing means being able to choose all by yourself, without any manipulation, which is basically having a choice without being able to blame anybody if it turns out a bad idea.

Oh how hard it would be to actually stop and think about the "why?" in our lives that should be fast, progressing, constantly updated, emancipated, independent -- independent from your friends and family, but not from your country or the people who have the money in your country, etc. etc. etc. Nobody asks himself, "Why am I chasing/choosing/saying/doing this?" and when the deed is finally done, nobody asks himself, "Shouldn't I turn back and see if doing it didn't do more harm than good?" Nobody stops and takes a look at his life, pondering is it right or wrong by their own judgment because everybody's too busy rushing through it. We don't think on our actions, that takes time! We just do whatever person A tells us to, no questions asked, because there's no time. Being forced to live as quickly paced as possible, we've ignored our freedom and just picked the first option -- give it to somebody else.

Now, somebody might say that thanks to all the technology, people have started to become weary about manipulation. However, they haven't noted that the manipulators also know that and dedicate a lot of time and definitely a lot of money (of which they have by tons) into making their manipulation unnoticed. And we've ignored that, because we're comfortable with it, as long as it's not too obvious. It's like an unwritten rule that has made its way after we've given our freedom over.

But ignorance is bliss. And freedom -- too much to bear.

P.S. To anybody who is thinking at the moment how knowledge and freedom are connected, well -- if you're presented with only one option because of the lack of knowledge, then you're not really free to choose, are you?