Liberation

 

What is liberation?  Let’s use sexuality as an example.  There is the liberation of sexuality.  But there is also the worship of sexuality.  One is liberation.  The other is slavery.

 

Liberation of sexuality is good.  Liberation of your entire self involves making decisions that may not be immediately gratifying, but will be more gratifying over the course of your life and your multiple lives.

 

It’s like a battle between your higher self and your lower self.  You want to exercise a little discipline over immediate reward so that you can better serve both your higher and lower self.  No one is forcing you.  But you will find over time that you wanted to.

 

And the utilitarian follows the psychological.  Or some might call it the spiritual.  The more free the society, the more prosperity—and recreation—there is.  Also the nore there is anything else that you might value.  There are things of value in addition to secualtiy—or immediate gratification.  There are labor and family.  There is art and music.  There is religion or community.  There are different emotional and mental (or chakrological) rewards that you might find please you much more in addition to your sexuality.  

 

It begins with the individual.  And then goes to groups or nations or the world.  It cannot begin with the nation.  Or the group.  Or the world.

 

If you are acting in any way beyond the individual—let’s say on behalf of or as the group (the nation, the world); you are not motivating, you are coercing.  If you imagine any action on behalf of an entire group in an image, acting on behalf or as the group would be like moving an entire group of people with your vector (or vectors).  That would require that every individual in the group be attached somehow—like with steel and bolts.  Or nails and beams.  To each other.  

 

Societies that allow and protect individuals to act on their own behalf, allow freedom of movement.  They allow groups to form.  They allow charities to develop.  They allow religion.  They allow selfishness.  They allow hedonism.  All voluntariyly.  All emanating from you.  Instead of forcing you—which is usually futile in terms of productivity.

 

The only thing they should not allow is the prevention of these things with a few minimal coercions admittedly.  There would be a minimal rule of law that prevents murder and theft and rape and perhaps a few other things—by which you could extrapolate any common law.  Negative rights as opposed to positive rights.  And you would likely have, as every social group degenerates into murderous tribalism, a bill or declaration of rights that preserves and probably enumerates a the things that government—or the group—cannot do. 

 

Liberty is parallel to liberation.  The more individuals are free to emanate, the better off society becomes.  There is more exchange and philanthropy in societies where there is more liberty.  The more government or group action there is, the less you will have and become yourself.  The less happy you will be.  Or worse: there will be violence and imprisonment and rape and murder and mass theft.