Thread by @TellYourSonThis

The wind on your face, the ability to go anywhere, freedom only remains freedom for as long as you can handle it - for once all semblance of order breaks down it becomes chaos, and chaos can be fun at first, but when it becomes your prison, you become disordered, stagnant, stuck.

Freedom, like money, is an easy sell - everybody wants lots of it, but few would be able to handle too much without destroying themselves.

Blinded by ignorance they see only the benefits, not the costs.

They do not equate freedom with self-discipline and accountability.

If I ask a woman "Miss, would you like total freedom?"

She will almost assuredly say yes

Yet if I asked her if she was willing to make all the tough decisions, lead, punish herself, and act as if everything that goes wrong in her life is always her fault, almost all will say no

If nobody decides for you, you must decide for yourself.

If nobody will discipline you, you must discipline yourself.

If you are in charge, then you must always take blame when it goes wrong.

So how can you expect to be free, if you are not willing to pay the price it entails?

If you fail to do these things, then your freedom becomes chaos.

You become dysfunctional, demoralised, unstructured, don't take criticism well, lack introspection, have no consistency in any area of growth and move through life, directionless and astray.

You are low agency.

To be free is to lead one's self.

But freedom is not free, the burden of leadership and all it entails is the cost incurred.

To lead one's self inadequately is to be mired in chaos, and continuous chaos is the default state of failure. Nothing grows. You just eat yourself.

So you like the idea of being free, but can you handle self-leadership? Are you even any good at it, or would your life be better if someone competent governed it?

Many people who want to be free would be in a worse place if they were - they are just too foolish to realise this.

Feminism is an excellent example of this. Women sought emancipation in pursuit of a better life, and instead, free to self-direct and left to their own devices, they became inferior mothers and wives. Their happiness dwindled. They became more traumatised, more promiscuous, less… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Woman does not want to be free because she is not equipped to be, but she is too foolish to realise that, and should she become wise enough to realise it, she is usually too prideful to admit it.

This is why they are as paradoxically obsessed with man as they are with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…