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Old February 8, 2004, 22:12   #1
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The Unfree Man
Just a little something that has been drifting in and out of my head for a while. Here is the first draft of an essay I call The Unfree Man. Tell me what you think. Critisize and help me make it better before I post it in the main forum (Either stand alone or in PRAVDA)


THE UNFREE MAN

There was a period in man’s history where the idea of “freedom for all men” was a new thought. The freedom for all men was rooted in the axiom that man is inherently free; for he has the freedom to make his own decisions. He has free will. This free will found itself at the center of a the newly reborn governmental style of Democracy. That Democracy soon flooded Earth and was the “ideal” method of ruling a nation. Democracy even beat out communism during the first Cold War on Earth, leaving the United States of America the undisputed rulers of Earth into the 21st century. Now, I could go into the various reasons why communism failed, but the point I will be making is that it was not democracy that won that war: For democracy is a farce. Democracy is a fallacy because I say that man is not free. He does not have an inherent free will. What he has called “free will” is nothing more than a contrived, empty pair of words used to placate the masses.
Man is not free because of two fundamental parts of man. The first of which is his emotion. Emotion has the nasty effect of clouding what would otherwise be a good decision. It happens all the time, as well. When man “goes against his better judgment,” he is letting his emotions dictate what to do. When man loves, or is angry, or wants revenge, he is letting his emotions control him. What vestiges of “free will” were in him before his was angered are gone once man falls into his emotions. Yet this is not the only reason man is free.
I further propose that knowledge is the second chain of what has been called “free will.” As long as we are capable of understanding the world around us, we take in information and process it into knowledge. This is fine, for man does need to learn, but it comes into conflict when one has to use his “free will.” For when he desires to decide on something, he takes into account his knowledge. He changes his decision from it. This may not sound bad, until you look at the source of knowledge.
In a modern “democracy,” the people are informed about their government through the media. It is impossible to reach very many people with the simple methods that the ancient Greeks did. Since the mid- 20th century, democracy has needed to use media to inform its people of the happenings in the world. It has become a necessary device of government in the mean time, and Chiron is no exception. Yet it is a fundamentally flawed system. The media cannot tell the people everything. There is much too much happening in the world for all of it to be broadcasted. There- in is the root of knowledge’s evil: It can very easily be used against its viewers. The case in point is early 21st century USA.
In that time and place, the USA was the dominant force on Earth. Yet is was not a democracy. The ruling groups used the media to placate the masses. They told their people about the latest fashions when they should have been told of the armies amassing on their borders. And when it did bubble over, the media used its people’s emotions to rally full boar into the beginning of the end.
So one may be saying that knowledge and emotions are not chains of free will. They are free will in themselves. Man takes his knowledge and his emotion and arrives to a decision; thus free will. But this statement is a flawed one. It is fine to call knowledge and emotion free will; it does not change them from being flawed. First of all, any knowledge one has is not yours. Very rarely does one get an idea out of the blue, so to speak. Random appearances of thought do not happen. So any knowledge that you have is inherently from an outside source. Further, where the knowledge came from was also inherently biased to one side or another. Be it for capitalism or socialism, for the weak or the strong, or whatever. The ultimate point is that it’s biased, and therefore, very likely flawed in one way or another. Emotion is not an unbiased thing either. As I’ve said before, emotions are the antithesis to logical thought. They deter one from a sane and rational path to that one of rash actions and ill thought gains.
This is why democracy is not a proper government. How can one rule a nation on the premise that the public makes their decision of their own free will, when what they decide is nothing more than what they have been fed my the media? Because man is not free, democracy is not the holy grail of government that it once was.
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Old February 9, 2004, 05:25   #2
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Old February 9, 2004, 05:42   #3
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Not bad

Although MY history book doesn´t tell me the USA were the "undisputed rulers on earth"
But I get your point, it´s a good thought.
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Old February 9, 2004, 07:02   #4
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He has American history books. They go all the way back to 1985

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Old February 9, 2004, 18:40   #5
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Honestly, in this day and age, who is going to take down America (besides the Canadians )? We over here in the ol' USA have it pretty good.
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Old February 10, 2004, 00:50   #6
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Excellent work! Your knowledge of the farce that is democracy is precise, like a diamond's glint in the dark.

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Old February 10, 2004, 08:25   #7
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as a metter of fact democracy was not told to be the "ideal" method to rule the nation but the "less bad".

any way it is grate and it should be incurporated to our institutional statement as a nation (or some crap like this )
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Old February 27, 2004, 13:55   #8
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Such a great work. Should be published in the right moment too (about now ).

I did see a couple typoes if you could correct them before the publication.
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