Monday, November 7, 2011

circumnavigating the tidal pool

The Jefferson Memorial brought me to tears. The clarity of the statement against tyranny over the mind resonated with me powerfully.

Moving on to the FDR Memorial... and there it was. The glaring perversion of Jefferson's vision. "Free from want"

(The first memorial I visited yesterday was Lincoln, ultimate symbol of the rise of the Federal Govt.; I will leave a discussion of what Jefferson would have thought of him for later... hint: we are all now equally enslaved by a bigger system.)

What? Free from want? Is this a freedom?

The freedoms which were on the table before were freedoms of choice and of opportunity, freedom being the LACK OF EXTERNAL CONTROL OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.

Is there any way to provide a freedom from want without imposing CONTROL OVER THE INDIVIDUAL? Can someone explain this to me?