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%FEAR OF FREEDOM 761030
Fear of freedom is common. It is the human condition.
Having to make many choices is wearing. It is easier to
have your choices limited to a few. Thus constraints on
our freedom to make choices---are welcomed constraints in
many instances. They are welcome even when they prevent
us from doing some of the things we most want to do. This
is so because the fear of total freedom is very great, and
so great sacrifices will be made to avoid total freedom.
Dictators take advantage of the human condition of fearing
freedom. They limit human freedom bit by bit. People
rarely protest the loss of just a bit of freedom at a
time.
A freedom which is usually lost first is the freedom
to publicly express unconventional and/or disturbing
facts, principles, opinion, ideals, and fantasies. They
are defined to be unbecoming, distasteful, inconsiderate,
immoral, impolite; if not outright false and/or illegal---
the latter usually after the former. The inhibition of
free expression occurs informally. The acts which cause
the inhibition tend to be subtle, beyond the reach of
formal legal and judicial procedures. Such acts are often
not recognized as violent, because they perform the
desired service of narrowing freedom to manageable
proportions.
People who fall into a routine cease to live---in
proportion as all of their actions become routine. When
all their actions are routine, they no longer have any
freedom or life. They are no longer making choices,
exercising freedom. Their pattern may have originated
with others, or within themselves. Their pattern of
behavior may have been chosen freely, or been imposed. In
any case, when all actions are just part of a pattern, a
routine, then there is no freedom nor any life.
Love shakes the foundations of routine and creates a
new being which has the courage to be constantly renewed.
With such courage, the fear of freedom no longer dominates
the self. Alternatives may be openly considered and
choices made according to unique situations, rather than
have behaviors follow traditional patterns in a routine
which repeats day after day, week after week, month after
month, year after year. Love casts out fear and permits
people to be themselves.
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