Saturday, April 14, 2012

Freedom - is it a disappearing ideal?

As I listen/read the news, I am increasingly frightened at how freedom seems to be a disappearing ideal. 
  • Have the governments of our western countries forgotten they are here to serve the people and not the other way around? More of our taxes go to supporting our governements, who are getting bigger, not smaller. More and more laws are being created. Most of the laws create more and more restrictions on us. One piles on top of the other to justify even more people being hired by goverments to control it's people...  By the way... have you ever seen a socialist government that actually downsizes or creates more freedom?
  • Have us, the people, forgottent there is only one person that can ensure we have a successful and happy life, and that is ourselves?  With freedom of choice - comes responsibility for the consequences  and morality of those choices. It is not the company that I work for, nor the government, or anything else that is responsible for my happy (or lack there of) life...  It is me and only me. There is also a civic responsibility that comes with freedom of choice. and most of us (me included) seem to have forgotten this..  
  • Have our religious leaders forgotten that it is our personal choice in which religion we put believe .. or not...  And it is a huge sign of civil and moral responsibility to chose to respect others beliefs.   
I am not sure what to do with these thoughts. However.. they are bubbling around in my head, heart and gut... so, perhaps they just need a bit more time on the back burner of the "thought stove" to come together in some clear course of action. 

It is obvious there is a price for freedom, but the price of lack of freedom seems to me to be far greater.

The philisophical definition of Freedom: the power to exercise choice and make decisions without constraint from within or without; autonomy; self-determination. (From the dictionary.com)

Black Horses: Now we are free

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