Comment from "Darzom"
"We are currently experiencing the coordinated effort to recast freedom as selfishness. Despite its many past abuses and misuses, political freedom, as conceived by Constitutional authors, is meant to be exercised with responsibility.
"We are currently experiencing the coordinated effort to recast freedom as selfishness. Despite its many past abuses and misuses, political freedom, as conceived by Constitutional authors, is meant to be exercised with responsibility.
That mindful balancing of freedom and responsibility is the true essence of “self government,” and self government is said to be the essence of democracy.
Self government, exercised in the moment-by-moment moral dilemmas presented in daily life, is vital as the essential consciousness training required for spiritual evolution.
The reframing of freedom as selfishness receives a powerful “booster shot” from current pandemic fears. Vast swaths of populations around the world await their coming savior, the COVID vaccine.
If you are a corporation with a product to sell—and that is precisely the situation with vaccine manufacturers—you would rather have your customers clamoring for your product than be in the weaker position of having to force it on them.
That way, the illusion of freedom of choice can be maintained. This requires high levels of fear across the population to drive any market resistance down.
Those with the presence of mind to hold that fear at bay, responsibly exercising the freedom to do their own research and thinking, and make their own decisions rather than surrendering that authority to the state or the hysterical mob, are stigmatized as “selfish.”
Most people would rather wear the mask than be so labeled. The actual selfishness of those intent and taking your freedom and your money escapes notice, a side benefit of instilling so much fear, or keeping people preoccupied with appearing virtuous."
