My OperaPersonal freedom: thoughts and observations from a lofty tower.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:58:39 PM
Freedom of speech is only problematic to those in a position of power:
It is a constant fluxuation and balance between those that have something to loose, and those that have something to gain by its shifting parameters and outer borders.
I think it is absolutely imperative that it’s extremes are being challenged and re-defined to ensure that the established conformity does not slowly slip into pure tyrrany at the expense of those without means or capability to have their voices heard.
We speak as if there are absolutes that define the outposts of our morality: establish the rules and carve them in stone, pretending that our ivory towers were not build on the backs of those lesser fortunate along the way.
Only those with something to loose would argue that free speech must be kept at bay, don’t want all those outstretched hands reaching all the way to our front doors now, do we?
Liberty is not given, it is taken..slowly and stone by stone, it strikes me that the main problem is not that we feel "entitled" to speak our minds, but that we don’t want to listen to those that have something to say which challenges our roles as the moral superiority and supreme commanders of the truth.
So in other words, "say what you want as long as it does not require me to make a sacrifice": given that the sum of all things remain zero, there can only be room for so much freedom at any given time, no?
I see the "problem" of assertiveness and aggression online as the result of the increased focus and shift towards individualism: not only for the privileged few, but for everyone within the capacity to hit a few keys and in possession of the sufficient linguistic skills to educate themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
No, the problem is the oldest and most familiar of all human conditions, Greed.
The need to have it all and never let go.
Someone said absolute freedom of speech is a trap, well guess what...every pray has its hunter, and gentlemen...the game is on.
_P
It is a constant fluxuation and balance between those that have something to loose, and those that have something to gain by its shifting parameters and outer borders.
I think it is absolutely imperative that it’s extremes are being challenged and re-defined to ensure that the established conformity does not slowly slip into pure tyrrany at the expense of those without means or capability to have their voices heard.
We speak as if there are absolutes that define the outposts of our morality: establish the rules and carve them in stone, pretending that our ivory towers were not build on the backs of those lesser fortunate along the way.
Only those with something to loose would argue that free speech must be kept at bay, don’t want all those outstretched hands reaching all the way to our front doors now, do we?
Liberty is not given, it is taken..slowly and stone by stone, it strikes me that the main problem is not that we feel "entitled" to speak our minds, but that we don’t want to listen to those that have something to say which challenges our roles as the moral superiority and supreme commanders of the truth.
So in other words, "say what you want as long as it does not require me to make a sacrifice": given that the sum of all things remain zero, there can only be room for so much freedom at any given time, no?
I see the "problem" of assertiveness and aggression online as the result of the increased focus and shift towards individualism: not only for the privileged few, but for everyone within the capacity to hit a few keys and in possession of the sufficient linguistic skills to educate themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
No, the problem is the oldest and most familiar of all human conditions, Greed.
The need to have it all and never let go.
Someone said absolute freedom of speech is a trap, well guess what...every pray has its hunter, and gentlemen...the game is on.
_P
