The previous article [XXIV] – a short intermezzo about the freedom
categorization – was built as an argument for demonstrating the validity of liberalism
paradox[XXIII]. In order to reach my goal, I will start simple by following the
evolution of the idea of freedom, because there is a powerful link between this
idea and the man (who embrace it) and I want to reveal it.
1. During the early stages of his long and savage history, man was
only confronted with survival decisions and this, from the point-of-view of his
modern and educated children, was not freedom. Driven by instincts, that – barbaric
– man used only his senses to discover the world in which he lived. So:
b. his basic and discernment freedoms were reduced by his lack of
power (over nature – his spatiality) and, respectively, by his lack of
imagination [XXIV](no point I.1 and I.2) and
c. he was imprisoned into the dimension of senses [XXIV](III.1 – sensitive
thinking/sensitive freedom)
2. At some moment in time, man extended the boundaries
of the sky and life (and found the location of God(s)) with his mind through revelation
[XXIV](III-2 - Magical-mythical thinking/). This added a new (fake) option on
his table [XXIV](point I.1) and made him happy (or at least serene), but the
same modern educated children can argue that the – religious – man (past, actual
and future) does not have any kind of discernment freedom [XXIV](no point I.2),
because they believe that God does not exist.
3. In modernity, when God died by the hand of the modern Iuda –
Nietzsche – Gott ist tot [XXI], the rational thinking prevailed [XXIV](III.5 rational
thinking/rational freedom). All the laws of nature and the social inequities [XXIV](no
point I.1) – at that time – were in fact the rational boundaries established by
the rational thinking of man – daedalian – man [XXVI]. And this was the miraculous
moment when man discovered the discernment [XXIV](point I.2) and the discernment
freedom and he challenged (by revolts, revolutions, riots) the rational boundaries.
a. This way of thinking [XXIV](III.3 creative or cultural thinking/creative
boundaries) enriched the cultural spatiality with new dimensions and new
boundaries.
c. Because of 4.b (Western) culture(s) changed, the Discernment
Freedom (point I.2) changed also in perfect synchronicity with it.
5. After Basic Freedom [XXIV] (point I.1) was secured, the options began to grow like
cancer and this (with the help of officials - the Institution of Administration) put a great pressure on the mind
of man born in modernity (or postmodernity). The beginning of the
end was when he had, not too less, but too much. The man lost (one by one) all his ways of thinking:
a. Magical-mythical thinking [XXIV](III.2) – because God is dead
and miracles are only happening in movies/(books)
b. Creative thinking [XXIV](III.3) – there is no need to go/(escape)
into cultural dimension when civilization is offering everything (before you
are using the imagination to think to everything)
c. Affective thinking [XXIV](III.4) – emotions and sensibility are
lost, so the heart (of the braves) are wandering through a desolate desert
d. Rational thinking [XXIV](III.5) – laws of nature and laws of man
are taken for granted because they are bent and, respectively, imposed (so they
say!) in order to protect the basic freedom. There is no need to use it anymore…
except
This
is the paradox: with his lack of discernment freedom (I.2) [XXIV] the modern man
– even he is not seeing this – is in the same situation with the barbarian (1)
he judged at point (1) and with the believer he judged at point (2). (Basic
freedom in not everything). He does not know what freedom is anymore, he does
not need freedom, but he is talking about it a lot.
Notă din 4.VIII.2013: Am găsit şi la Cioran un paradox al libertăţii, similar celui propus de mine... "Paradox tragic al libertăţii: mediocrii, singurii ce-i fac existenţa posibilă, nu pot să-i garanteze dăinuirea." (Emil Cioran, Istorie si utopie, 1960, pag. 55)
Notă din 4.VIII.2013: Am găsit şi la Cioran un paradox al libertăţii, similar celui propus de mine... "Paradox tragic al libertăţii: mediocrii, singurii ce-i fac existenţa posibilă, nu pot să-i garanteze dăinuirea." (Emil Cioran, Istorie si utopie, 1960, pag. 55)
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