But Kant said that freedom was sacrificed to reason... Individual freedom when interrogated thoroughly is an abstraction. I don't believe that there is any human free from one ideology or other, and the more false information I receive, or more assumed-knowledge I absorb without interrogating, will not make me freer.
I wouldn't like to comment on freedom in China. I know very little about it. What I do know is in the West freedom is a misused concept, spouted like it was obvious what it meant.
Am I free because I am indocrinated with the ideologies that Western culture spouts? Am I free to because I fetishize consumerist culture? Maybe...
The trouble is I don't think so. If laws stopped me being indocrinated with false ideology, they wouldn't be bad, they would be doing there job - keeping me free.
I am not defending the Chinese administration, but I am offering a different side to the coin and I am saying we are not free in the West. We have been targeted from so many angles, ingrained with self-replicating and false ideologies, we don't know freeedom is.
The common belief is that money makes us free - our second home in the country makes us free. But no, money incarcerates us in a vicious cycle of production and consumption. Good luck China, I say... escape the free World's view on freedom. It has incarcerated us.
I look to India and China for the future of humanity, after all, it is the hope of one of the few ideologies that made any sense - Buddhism
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But Kant said that freedom was sacrificed to reason... Individual freedom when interrogated thoroughly is an abstraction. I don't believe that there is any human free from one ideology or other, and the more false information I receive, or more assumed-knowledge I absorb without interrogating, will not make me freer.
I wouldn't like to comment on freedom in China. I know very little about it. What I do know is in the West freedom is a misused concept, spouted like it was obvious what it meant.
Am I free because I am indocrinated with the ideologies that Western culture spouts? Am I free to because I fetishize consumerist culture? Maybe...
The trouble is I don't think so. If laws stopped me being indocrinated with false ideology, they wouldn't be bad, they would be doing there job - keeping me free.
I am not defending the Chinese administration, but I am offering a different side to the coin and I am saying we are not free in the West. We have been targeted from so many angles, ingrained with self-replicating and false ideologies, we don't know freeedom is.
The common belief is that money makes us free - our second home in the country makes us free. But no, money incarcerates us in a vicious cycle of production and consumption. Good luck China, I say... escape the free World's view on freedom. It has incarcerated us.
I look to India and China for the future of humanity, after all, it is the hope of one of the few ideologies that made any sense - Buddhism