How To Be Free In An Unfree World

“In such epochs where the highest values of life — our peace, our independence, our basic rights, all that makes our existence more pure, more beautiful, all that justifies it — are sacrificed to the demon inhabiting a dozen fanatics and ideologues, all the problems of the man who fears for his humanity come down to the same question: how to remain free?”

Stefan Zweig, Montaigne

So, I think we can agree on the absolute importance of freedom. Without freedom, you cannot have the things that make life worth living — our peace, our independence, our basic rights. You cannot have anything of these if you are not free first, so yes, freedom is fundamentally important.

Current Freedom Narratives

The current state of affairs provides us with what seems to be two narratives.

The first one tells you to trust your government, because, at the end of all things, they just want the general well-being and everything they do, they do it because of this reason, to preserve law and order.

To be fair, this sounds amazing, doesn’t it? No problem guys! The government knows what they’re doing, it’s OK!

But, is it OK, really?

Was it ok when Irak was invaded because of WMD’s and no WMD were found anywhere, while…