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Freedom is a Daily Skirmish

From my book, The Other Road Ahead

Detail from panel 6, The Story of Volodmire Zelensky, pen & ink leporello, 2022, dsr

My Comment

Making a good definition for what it means to be "free" in the 21st century is a moving target🎯 using contemporary terminologies. Are we "free" when we use the Internet? Drive a car? Consume alcohol or other drugs? Engage in serial intimate relations? These are the measurements used in our times.

Is freedom a combination of issues that make our life our own? There are some hackneyed sayings about freedom, "Follow your star⭐ (and or) your dreams" comes to mind. But what is your "star" and maybe your "dream" is mass-murder?

The ability to choose seems to be a good way to define freedom. Choosing between various alternatives guiding yourself through the brambles and thorns of life is an acquired skill often gained only by rebelling against modern conceits.

Often media driven, many of today's pretensions are relics of 1960's rhetoric recycled without context. Literally these are memes without content. Prying ourselves from this web🕷🕸 of clever trickery can be a difficult path that may include deep change such as our suppositions about society.

“Well, disruptive is not the same as bad. A lot of disruptive things actually are good. That’s the point. There’s this sort of mindset that assumes any change is bad. You can call it disruptive or you can call it change. But it doesn’t have to be bad."*

* Freeman Dyson (1923-2020), Yale 360, 6/2009.✔

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