So what? Would you suggest:
Be unemployed. Stay at home. Be alone. Leave no legacy. Wear rubbish clothes. Act purposely weird. Walk in the road and get hit by a car. Do nothing and be bored. Break the law and go to prison. Have no money left for when you're old and so be homeless.
Yeah, that's *so* much more free.
Maybe the better answer is to improve the system, rather than just passing through it and then dying without ever having lived authentically.
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I don't know why you're getting down voted ^. The illusion of freedom is that you are free to choose within a narrow bandwidth of possibilities, prescribed to you by a system that benefits itself when you follow its rules and stay within the "box". Follow the rules and the set course with the rest of society and surely you must be doing it right. Break out of the status quo, carve your own path, think your own thoughts, and live life your own way. Question what you have been told as being possible, take a left, take the red pill. Don't get married and have kids if you don't want to, even though society says you should, turn off the hypno-box, you don't have to have a degree to be successful in this life, and find your own way. Be yourself, stay true to yourself, have dreams and follow them unconventionally, and live your own authentic life. To me, that's true freedom.
http://www.wwoof.net do it. I'm 35 and i wish i had. 7 hours ago i was basically told by my bosses boss that i needed to drink the kool-aid or get the eft out. planning my escape as i type.
To me this is a "first world problem" kind of post. You can do that or be an artist and sell your art or be a nomad who cares. What about ppl with no real options?
Or u could be like certain other people who dont have the freedom to choose their career their spouse or where they live. Seriously dont u see how good u have it?
Hah, jokes on you, i've got so many chronic diseases that I can't even work right, I could never take care of a child, I'm so asocial I don't have any friends, much less partner, my sense of fashion consists of baggy pants and t-shirts, I'm the absolute craziest person you'll ever meet, I don't even have a tv. The only ones I follow are walk on the pavement (dont get hit by a car) obey the law (don't murder people)
Be unemployed. Stay at home. Be alone. Leave no legacy. Wear rubbish clothes. Act purposely weird. Walk in the road and get hit by a car. Do nothing and be bored. Break the law and go to prison. Have no money left for when you're old and so be homeless.
Yeah, that's *so* much more free.