FREEDOM IS FREEDOM FROM FREEDOM ITSELF

Manu Joseph, the famous contemporary writer, once said, "Human beings have been unfree the moment freedom was exchanged with liberty". And I think no truer statement was ever made. 

There is a fundamental distinction when we talk about freedom of an individual and freedom as a concept for humanity. Liberty as a concept is for the masses. A collective lowest denominator rights that does not harm anyone. On the other hand, Freedom of an Individual becomes a psychoanalytic and a sort of spiritual question. As the rule of thumb goes, more you move to talk about one person or thing, more it is to do with spirituality and psychology and stuff. \

Freedom or the desire to become free of existence itself stems from the Freudian Todestrieb or Death drive. You feel trapped in your body at times. A permanent disconnect is felt within your body and your mind. In this article, let us dwell into the disconnect and why it might happen. 

Actually, Modern age is an age of comfort. So, no pain and no risks. No adventures and too and also no pleasures, therefore. Your body adopts this change very easily. Your body is the easiest to get corrupted. Your mind thereafter and Your awareness or consciousness at last. Your mind feels a lack of action in the concrete jungle. You might think the disconnect has to do with the extreme pain that one suffers when one is in the body form. But whatever it is, it is contrary to this. Actually, if there is a psychoanalytic wisdom or a golden truth, it is that no human ever has the slightest desire of loss of pain and abundance of pleasure. We want pain, we want to be depressed, we enjoy being ashamed, we enjoy being sad. We enjoy our symptoms the best. On the nominal level, we complain about how pathetic an individual we are but on the sub-conscious level, we feel assured that at least a guarantee of meaning till we feel sad, is there. So, the permanent split between the mind, body and soul expresses itself in many ways. 

One of the ways is that any amount of dopamine from the modern worldly affairs does not satisfy man. So, people go on hiking on dangerous terrains, jumps from helicopters and many such activities where life risks and faked and curated. 

Capitalism dwells on our deepest of desires. So, what might be the way out of this desire of freedom and thrill which itself has become a commodity. I might recommend meditation but the problem with people who do not do meditation is that they cannot comprehend what might be experienced with eyes closed that couldn't be experienced with eyes wide open. 

Also, because, people and most of them, cannot come in terms with the fact that there might be some experiences which are not accessible to people who don't do a particular set of things. They are ready to admit that they are stupid on a logical level, but they want to think that on an empirical experience level, at least they see the same as any other person. But not a falser statement than this was ever said.

Freedom can only be achieved with the experience of freedom. What is the experience of freedom? The experience is the inner feeling that you were never bound or captive. This can also be experienced on a mountain cliff. On the mountain cliff, when you look down, you see the abyss and then you realize, you were always free, and the proof of this is that, here you can just take a little jump and end your life. 

So, this leads us to the final conclusion. So, some categories are categories of totality. They can only be achieved only when we overcome them as well. FREEDOM IS FREEDOM FROM ITSELF, then only it is true freedom. So, should you jump from a cliff? I mean, at least see the abyss from a cliff for sure or else meditate, you will see the same abyss (loss of thought) inside your head while meditating. 

To give a twist to Nietzsche's quote, 

"And then all those seen meditating were thought to be insane by those who cannot hear the silence!"