Greetings good citizen, as a writer words are my 'stock in trade', they are both my weapons and my sheild. There is no doubt words are powerful and we must chose them wisely but we writers often lament over how few actually understand their meaning.
Often even the dictionary is of little use. Freedom is defined as 'the state of being free'. With definitions like that our contemporaries must scratch their heads and wonder what was 'wrong' with the revolutionaries, most of whom were 'free' already. [A good percentage of colonists started off as 'bondsmen' obliged to work off their passage to the new world but after the first hundred years, freemen outnumbered the 'indentured' by a wide margin.
Like many things, the problem lies with how it is 'parsed'. Is freedom 'front and center' in YOUR life?
Most of you would be quick to ask, 'what do you mean?' because while we all take 'freedom' for granted, most of us are hyper-sensitive to anything that threatens it. [This is the part that makes writer's heads explode...]
For such a hyper-sensitive topic, almost none of you know what it is!
Bizarrely, you are 'free' [in as much as nobody has a bill of sale with your name on it.] I am similarly 'unencumbered' and so is everybody else I know.
We are all 'free' in a world/society where NOTHING ELSE IS! [Stop right there, Captian Obvious! We all know the air is free without your pointing it out.]
So why are we so, er, 'worried' about our freedom? Our greatest fear is we can lose our freedom if an agent of the law suspects we have commited a crime.
Is that what spurred the founders to revolt against the crown/church?
Nope, back then one of the most common threats our forefathers had to deal with was the cry, "you'll hang for this!"
Statements like that formed the basis of Tyranny, being bent to the will of another [whether you liked it or not.]
Those who used their power to bend you to their will were called 'tyrants'. I know I belabor the obvious but like working class, both tyrants and tyranny have vanished from the public lexicon. Just because the term isn't used anymore doesn't mean 'tyrants' no longer exist.
In 'simpler' times, the King's authority was 'absolute', leaving no doubt in anyone's mind HE was a 'tyrant'. Same went for God's earthly representatives. Fail to meet your 'spiritual obligations' and you risked eternal damnation.
Back then 'ecumenalism' didn't exist. Not worshiping the 'right way' [or the right god for that matter] had dire consequences.
[In many places around the planet, it still does and if the 'tyrants' that rule from the shadows have their way, it will become the 'law of the land' again here too!]
Why is it those who claim to speak for god believe they're wonderful? How frightening is it the answer is likely insanity?
The 'freedom' the founders 'aggitated' for [eventually fighting a guerilla war for] was 'freedom from tyranny'.
But there aren't any 'tyrants' anymore, right?
The 'King' is no more and in this country anyway, religous freedom is one of our 'rights' [how sad it is one of the few remaining...because THE TYRANTS have taken the rest from us (in the name of Public Safety.)
A King is frightening enough but an invisible King is much worse.
Isn't THAT what's troubling you, Bunky?
How frightening is it that the 'meatpuppet-in-chief' is defending Monuments to the Slavers [tyrants] that CONTINUE to rule this country from the shadows?
WTF good citizen! How many of you (still) believe we can use the ballot box to straighten this one out?
How ironic we all hold freedom dear yet none will stand up to the invisible tyrants to defend it?
Since the cowardly tyrants hide behind the legal system, it forces us to eradicate a totally corrupt legal system to bring them to account for their crimes.
Consider your position carefully good citizen then act accordingly.
The founders didn't have a lock on courage or smarts. Your leader is likely standing close to you. [He or she is already your 'go to' when trouble surfaces...]
The greatest generation wasn't. Humanities 'finest hour' remains before it.
Do you have what it takes [to put an end to tyranny?]
If you're armed with A Simple Plan you do!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Often even the dictionary is of little use. Freedom is defined as 'the state of being free'. With definitions like that our contemporaries must scratch their heads and wonder what was 'wrong' with the revolutionaries, most of whom were 'free' already. [A good percentage of colonists started off as 'bondsmen' obliged to work off their passage to the new world but after the first hundred years, freemen outnumbered the 'indentured' by a wide margin.
Like many things, the problem lies with how it is 'parsed'. Is freedom 'front and center' in YOUR life?
Most of you would be quick to ask, 'what do you mean?' because while we all take 'freedom' for granted, most of us are hyper-sensitive to anything that threatens it. [This is the part that makes writer's heads explode...]
For such a hyper-sensitive topic, almost none of you know what it is!
Bizarrely, you are 'free' [in as much as nobody has a bill of sale with your name on it.] I am similarly 'unencumbered' and so is everybody else I know.
We are all 'free' in a world/society where NOTHING ELSE IS! [Stop right there, Captian Obvious! We all know the air is free without your pointing it out.]
So why are we so, er, 'worried' about our freedom? Our greatest fear is we can lose our freedom if an agent of the law suspects we have commited a crime.
Is that what spurred the founders to revolt against the crown/church?
Nope, back then one of the most common threats our forefathers had to deal with was the cry, "you'll hang for this!"
Statements like that formed the basis of Tyranny, being bent to the will of another [whether you liked it or not.]
Those who used their power to bend you to their will were called 'tyrants'. I know I belabor the obvious but like working class, both tyrants and tyranny have vanished from the public lexicon. Just because the term isn't used anymore doesn't mean 'tyrants' no longer exist.
In 'simpler' times, the King's authority was 'absolute', leaving no doubt in anyone's mind HE was a 'tyrant'. Same went for God's earthly representatives. Fail to meet your 'spiritual obligations' and you risked eternal damnation.
Back then 'ecumenalism' didn't exist. Not worshiping the 'right way' [or the right god for that matter] had dire consequences.
[In many places around the planet, it still does and if the 'tyrants' that rule from the shadows have their way, it will become the 'law of the land' again here too!]
Why is it those who claim to speak for god believe they're wonderful? How frightening is it the answer is likely insanity?
The 'freedom' the founders 'aggitated' for [eventually fighting a guerilla war for] was 'freedom from tyranny'.
But there aren't any 'tyrants' anymore, right?
The 'King' is no more and in this country anyway, religous freedom is one of our 'rights' [how sad it is one of the few remaining...because THE TYRANTS have taken the rest from us (in the name of Public Safety.)
A King is frightening enough but an invisible King is much worse.
Isn't THAT what's troubling you, Bunky?
How frightening is it that the 'meatpuppet-in-chief' is defending Monuments to the Slavers [tyrants] that CONTINUE to rule this country from the shadows?
WTF good citizen! How many of you (still) believe we can use the ballot box to straighten this one out?
How ironic we all hold freedom dear yet none will stand up to the invisible tyrants to defend it?
Since the cowardly tyrants hide behind the legal system, it forces us to eradicate a totally corrupt legal system to bring them to account for their crimes.
Consider your position carefully good citizen then act accordingly.
The founders didn't have a lock on courage or smarts. Your leader is likely standing close to you. [He or she is already your 'go to' when trouble surfaces...]
The greatest generation wasn't. Humanities 'finest hour' remains before it.
Do you have what it takes [to put an end to tyranny?]
If you're armed with A Simple Plan you do!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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