Comment freedom is only in one's mind (Score 1) 796
i have to question your assumptions on freedom in your comments.
as a native american i call into question our freedom in this country many a time, but having livedin many other parts of the world i must say that the 'freedom' we experience in this country is certainly of a much truer nature than you claim.
the censorship that you refer to and the privation of ideological freedom that you mention are not those imposed by the country itself but by the very fact that we are able to express our ideas freely, and expect the freely expressed ideas and actions of our ideological opponents to do the same.
censorship is a natural instinct, a way to protect our view of the world by suppressing the views of others; the censorship you alude to however is not institutional (not that it does not exist) but rather the instinctual reaction of individuals and groups who feel threatened by an idea and who fear the acceptance of something that threatens their world view.
it is the fact that these people, rightly or wrongly, can express their disapproval of an idea and attempt to suppress it by whatever means possible that essentially expresses our 'freedom'. our 'right' to disapprove and to make "our" ideas superior. like any other animal we are attempting to secure or domain, even if it is in our minds and the mids thsoe around us.
the reaction of many of these groups is "almost" understandable considering what many so called freely expressed ideas have doen in this century, when people were truly unable to oppose them and ended up blindly following them to protect themselves and their families.
do not criticize what freely expressing our ideas, in whatever foolish actions we choose, as being a los of freedom, if anything, it exemplifies just how far we have come, and just how basically instinctual we truly are as humans
as a native american i call into question our freedom in this country many a time, but having livedin many other parts of the world i must say that the 'freedom' we experience in this country is certainly of a much truer nature than you claim.
the censorship that you refer to and the privation of ideological freedom that you mention are not those imposed by the country itself but by the very fact that we are able to express our ideas freely, and expect the freely expressed ideas and actions of our ideological opponents to do the same.
censorship is a natural instinct, a way to protect our view of the world by suppressing the views of others; the censorship you alude to however is not institutional (not that it does not exist) but rather the instinctual reaction of individuals and groups who feel threatened by an idea and who fear the acceptance of something that threatens their world view.
it is the fact that these people, rightly or wrongly, can express their disapproval of an idea and attempt to suppress it by whatever means possible that essentially expresses our 'freedom'. our 'right' to disapprove and to make "our" ideas superior. like any other animal we are attempting to secure or domain, even if it is in our minds and the mids thsoe around us.
the reaction of many of these groups is "almost" understandable considering what many so called freely expressed ideas have doen in this century, when people were truly unable to oppose them and ended up blindly following them to protect themselves and their families.
do not criticize what freely expressing our ideas, in whatever foolish actions we choose, as being a los of freedom, if anything, it exemplifies just how far we have come, and just how basically instinctual we truly are as humans
