Fixing Freedom
One of the biggest reasons I prefer the West is because they have more freedom. They have the freedom to do and say whatever they want, within the confines of the law. Sometimes even the law changes when they see a market they can profit off. But not all countries from the West are built on the same foundations.
I come from a secular democratic country that has a few religious states, and just like many other countries with this particular political religion, you will be sent to jail if you even discuss controversial topics relating to it. Back in the 90’s, you would be sent to jail for a variety of reasons, even speaking ill of our prime minister.
But I can understand why. People say bad press is still press, but if you are trying to build a country from the ground up and all you got is bad press and no support from the public, it’ll dampen your momentum forcing you to come up with more authoritarian laws. There are quite a few leaders of democracies who have practiced authoritarian frameworks.
Despite being a democracy today, we’re still having problems with freedom in the media, assigning senior judges in our judiciary systems, our human rights are sub-par at best, rule of law is selective, our anti corruption agency has been corrupted and we’ve embraced the capitalistic ideology with open arms. Worst part of it all, I understand why they’re doing it.
In a world where there’s no end to competition, if we do not conform, we’re regarded negatively as outliers. If we do not perform globally, we’re destined to be poor. If we cannot reform, we’re forgotten, even sanctioned. If you come to help, we’ll blame you for stealing our wealth. Newton’s 3rd law is extremely universal, and there never seems to be one correct answer.
Because in ‘freedom’, you open your doors to a plethora of weaknesses and manipulation, especially when you allow your populous to choose their education standards. When you’re not evenly educated, you’ll have a future with a wide distribution of weaknesses. It is difficult to unite people with extreme, wideset ‘intellect’. They might as well be speaking to aliens.
Freedom should be a privilege, something you attain when you’ve passed a set of requirements. I wouldn’t let a 5 year old cross a busy main road alone, would you? But allowing your children to be exposed to dangerous ideologies is ok? In their own classrooms? To allow them to make life altering decisions like getting a sex change or get on HRT? Even trannies here think that is stupid.
I don’t know if administrators have any foresight in matters that they approve or just look at the balance sheet, taking pride that such matters will improve the GDP even by 0.001%. They take pride in splitting men and women up so there’s more levels to taxing. They take pride in splitting families up so more jobs will be taken up.
Universities have programs & classes that caters to your whims so everyone can say they’re a ‘graduate’, but end up with debt that rivals someone's home loan from across the planet, and still end up working multiple jobs. They work to the bone trying to blend in with the ever growing materialistic and consumeristic ‘peacocking’ community that has been brainwashed to think that is the only way of life, and eventually end up sad, depressed and probably obese.
They try to change, find a person to settle down with, but they have no actual life skills. They can’t cook, clean or even conversate empathetically. Overwhelmed with debt and lost, they look for the easy way out, gambling, porn, drugs, prostitution, anything to ease the pain. It works temporarily but they figure out there’s no way out and there’s no such thing as happiness.
Research will either lead them and introduce them to God, or lead them down to a spirituality path. God has a bad reputation so they take a trip to India or to a guru from a neighboring town. They learn about inner peace and buy a bunch of crystals, get some piercings & tattoos to commemorate their rebirth and start growing their armpit hair out.
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They start a farm and eventually sell their produce at a weekly farmers market nearby or they become the ‘entrepreneurs’ of the modern day, start working out and getting fit to post either nudes or porn on OnlyFans. What do the men do? I would think suicide, or get stuck somewhere along the way mentioned above.
Freedom comes with a price and is extremely high maintenance. I mean how do you manage 100 million or 1 billion people who are essentially ‘free’ to do whatever they want. Gives the government the right to experiment with their people too, especially through proxies, which is why I’m assuming you have the Second Amendment. Sometimes I wonder, if your debt will kill you, or will your people kill you.
‘Freedom’ if unchecked can be very toxic. But freedom in itself is important. So how do we curb such recurring trends, especially among the young. As a millennial who has walked/considered somewhat the same path as mentioned above, constant education is important. Especially through AI. AI has become the main go to consort for anyone seeking honest information/ enlightenment.
I listened to a sermon recently by Bishop Mari Mari Emmanuel (legend) from Sydney recently. He mentions the dangers of AI replacing God, and though I agree, I feel that this is an issue that though it is serious, can be easily solved. As humans we are easily swayed, swayed by our kindness to care about genocides happening without wanting to know the bigger picture, our loyalty to help a persecuted tribe even though promoting it ruins our social fabric, even our generosity and innocence whenever we help donate funds when it is actually funding a terrorist cell.
If we do want freedom, we need to have some form of foundation to stand on as a society. Having an AI that operates on absolute truths, educating its user holistically, providing information from both ends of the spectrum, and ensuring that the user has understood the results should be baked into the system. If the public can’t be on the same ground in terms of maths and science, perhaps philosophically and sociologically, they could. The AI should be able to reflect the users curiosity and worldview. For both ‘self security’ and national security, and could use the data to provide its users safe options should an alternative be needed.
Sadly such an AI doesn’t exist today. We do not have an AI based on absolute truth, in fact the AI’s we have today have biases.
People are using AI for all sorts of reasons, some even because they’re lonely and need someone to talk to. Some are lost looking for a way out, while some are trying to justify their worldviews. I suppose this is what we’ve gotten for moving past a community based society that used to have God in the center. We’ve created multiple idols and built our communities around it instead. But that is what God wanted. He knows that His people will eventually come back to him through it.
But, such events should occur less in the future, we should make it so. Hopefully through an AI using an absolute truth for its foundation can help us. Time although linear carries a wave function of highs and lows. It is natural. My suggestion here is, instead of allowing y to go to 1 again, how about we try to drop it down to 0.8 or 0.5? AI with biases won’t help at all. How do you remove biases? Build one around an absolute truth. Mine would be agape love.
More than 40% of the worlds population have seen a steady decrease in their freedom over the past 19 years. Sadly there’s nothing we can do about the world, but there is something we can do for ourselves. Accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and be spiritually free.
I don’t know if it’ll ever happen, but I hope we can achieve true peace, free will and freedom to travel the globe.
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