• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    You probably live in a society which intentionally supresses gangs, serial-murderers, & other kinds of “freedom” that some really want to be indulging in…

    “Freedom” is a code-word for lawlessness, for many.

    & state-lawlessness allows personal-law-with-a-gun to be the only law.

    Much of the ideology of the US seems to be predicated on that kind of “freedom”: the freedom to be the only law, to be the enforcer, the judge, the jury, & the executioner.

    As many have noted, the whole “free speech” thing means “only for me” kind of “freedom”.

    But it’s the same logic with right-to-live, right to kill-others, etc: it’s narcissism, all the way through that whole ideology, from the evidence it forces in the world’s face.

    DarkTriad’s real.

    It’s committed to making itself the only “lord”.

    Every variant of oligarchy/feudalism bullshit, whether “communist-party” enforced feudalism, or fascist feudalism, or corporatist feudalism … all of them demonstrate that removing livingwage from as much of the population as possible is the basis of the “freedom” they want to enforce, because of what it enables later…

    I wish this world were sane.

    I wish the system itself were rigged to be raising lives up as far in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as possible.

    But the evidence is that criminality’s the real ruler of this world.

    & that healthy-freedom is only a temporary mirage…

    All those reports about democracy being eradicated, globally … it’s civilrights which is being eradicated globally.

    That’s the “enemy” in the eyes of the ones who’re highjacking our planet’s governments…


    I’ve read that in Scandinavia it’s entirely possible for women to choose their careers by preference, not by being pressured into it by institutions or by men.

    & the segregation-of-jobs is significantly greater than it is in the places where male-pressure ( North America for sure, probably some of Europe ) or institutional pressure ( Soviet Union was that way )…

    That is a kind of freedom.

    Parenting, simply being able to afford to be with one’s children for their first 4 years, & to be providing them with proper nutrition, shelter, education, etc, is freedom.

    That’s been nearly-eradicated from North American lives, except for the most-fortunate…

    Parenting is a luxury?!

    Insanity.

    Maybe I’m just too bitter…

    I don’t think the kind of freedom that you’re having is normal, in North America.

    & that’s a problem, in my bitter eyes.

    Sorry to have bothered with all these words.

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