Quick Thought: True Freedom
True freedom is an illusionary concept - all men and women serve a master of one sort or another. Whether we are servants to duty and honor, subjects of logic and reason, or slaves to pleasure and base impulse, no man or woman can claim to act independently. Freedom as a perfect principle can only exist in a vacuum - not merely a vacuum of external pressure and influence, but of emotion, opinion, bias or care. Perfect freedom is oblivion.
Personal fulfillment and happiness are not to be found in the pursuit of absolute liberty, but in the active recognition of the masters we serve and a reconciliation with the principles to which we wish to subscribe.
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
[...] Quick Thought: True Freedom True freedom is an illusionary concept - all men and women serve a master of one sort or another. Whether we are servants to duty and honor, subjects to logic and reason, or slaves to pleasure and base impulse, no man or woman can claim to act independently. Freedom as a perfect principle can only exist in a vacuum - not merely a vacuum of external pressure and influence, but of emotion, opinion, bias or care. Perfect freedom is oblivion. Personal fulfillment and happiness are not to be found [...]
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