WHAT IS FREEDOM?

Are we in an artificial box of the mind?

I’m keeping this logo because I’m keeping the website with the hopes that someday our concept of citizens writing the laws they consent to be governed by. That is our founding principle and our mission at Action Radio. So although the show has been suspended, maybe the real value now is in just exploring concepts in ways that may not have been tried before. It is for that reason I keep writing.

I was reading a bunch of different sites asking two questions: what is freedom, and what is liberty? What I got were very stock answers regarding the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Locke’s principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of dreams, which Thomas Jefferson adapted to the pursuit of happiness. But what they all have in common is in prescribing specific limits on government, and rights for the people. And to enshrine and guarantee these rights, they are written in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. My question is whether the enumeration of the powers of government, and the statement of our rights, is not in itself limiting our concept of freedom and liberty?

It is not my purpose to rewrite the Constitution or Bill of Rights because that would be crazy, especially since as an immigrant I swore an oath to support and defend them both as a necessary part of my naturalization. What I’m thinking of is challenging the mind to think of new terms and new concepts of freedom as yet unexplored. We always look at freedom in terms of limiting government’s control over people. That’s how the system works. And the courts are supposed to protect our rights. But here’s the problem. As we all know, the Constitution was violated with Marbury v Madison within a few years of its ratification, when the federal judiciary simply made up their own powers. So the words of the Constitution and Bill of Rights are just not enough. And we need a change of thinking.

I have no idea how much public opinion counts, especially to the elite who appear to do whatever they want, and the people feel powerless to do anything about it. So maybe the next frontier of freedom is not in the courts, or the legislatures, or the universities, or the media, or any known institution that is allegedly a safeguard of freedom. What if the next battleground of freedom, or groundbreaking area of discovery will come from individual minds open to entirely new concepts and principles, new ways of thinking outside any box or construct that currently exists?

This new concept is necessary because we are entering a world where nothing is private, where everything is monitored, where artificial machine intelligence may take on a life of its own, and where people who are completely surveyed in everything they do, everything they do on computer down to the keystroke, everything they do in their cars from accelerator to brake, and every engine function, to their smart meter power regulation, to bills, taxes, regulations, local laws, state laws, federal laws, and international organizations that want to run everything. What if the whole idea of surveillance and monitoring became so abhorrent in the minds of citizens that it became politically impossible to continue?

Victor Hugo: “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” That’s what I was hoping for Action Radio. Well, there’s still time.

Ideas, thoughts, inspirations, new concepts, intolerable measures of servitude, these are the new battlegrounds, and they are all in the mind. So what we are up against is the power of the machine against the creation of new ideas. Patrick Wood calls this “technocracy.” This is the merging of technology and bureaucracy. The question I asked in the previous article with the Department of Innovation, is whether the whole concept of bureaucracy has to be completely changed, or even eliminated. That a new model beyond bureaucracy is needed for any hope of advancing our freedom and liberty.

These are the questions I’ll be asking here, and in probably several more articles as we together actually create entirely new concepts of freedom. I welcome your comments so we can open this dialog. Please share this article as I want to hear from everyone who wants to open their minds to things never before thought possible, or even considered.

The first question everyone will have is, “what can I do, I’m only one person.” I’m only one person also, but that already makes two of us. Here’s the thing, you don’t have to “do” anything. At this point I just want you to think. Maybe share with others what you are thinking. Not on social media, because that just goes into the machine. So just talk to people. Write actual letters, on paper! I’m thinking that thinking is the one area the technocracy can’t reach. Well, there’s still torture, secret police, gulags, and the DC Jail to try and find out what you think. So maybe talk only to who you absolutely trust. Everything physical can be monitored, touched, removed, destroyed and killed, but no power on Earth has found a way to control and stop what you think. And that, is our secret weapon. Think about it. And then act on your thoughts, without explanation, confirmation, consensus, or recording on any connected device.

I don’t understand the War in Iran. I don’t understand war at all and I’ve studied it for years. I was recently watching a series of videos on ancient battles. Those were absolutely barbaric and horrifying. And they were person, at sword length. Things are all electronic now and truly industrial, so the effect is the same. But what if the collective unspoken conscience of the country was that war was intolerable? I’m not talking about declared war against us, or deterring an actual attack, because of course we should be ready for that. I’m thinking about the military industrial complex wars, the wars for money, or polling points, or ego, or any of the reasons we have wars like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Iran. It was public opinion and protests more than anything that stopped Vietnam. But people were cheering when we bombed Iraq. So what if real freedom included freedom from any such wars? If you adopt that frame of reference, and that changes your actions and opinions, how will that move through society?

I was just wondering, with all the history courses documenting our wars, whether there is a course out there on how to avoid war? Maybe there’s a documentary on war alternatives? They always seem to be presented like there are no alternatives, just the inevitable. And then once they show things blowing up in someone else’s country, most everyone is on board. So maybe the first question we should always ask of any government policy is what alternatives they have considered?

Another concept to get in everyone’s mind is their own autonomy. The most disturbing part of the whole Covid affair was the willingness of so much of our population to go along with things that were completely illegal. We teach that we are a free country, but we don’t teach people how to actually be free, especially when the government mandates anything. So how do we go from the 20% non-compliance that I think is pretty well documented, to the 80% that we really need? How do we encourage people at all levels, at all ages, to think first about freedom and independence of action?

So as we become ever more conditioned, regulated, surveilled, and programed, it becomes ever more critical for people to in their own minds, go to freedom first. Does whatever is happening invalidate my freedom? Can I first think of what is not being said, as compared to what is? Now, I’m not knowledgeable in collective consciousness or all that scientific stuff, I’m just exploring the idea, that real freedom has to start in the mind of each individual, and hopefully enough individuals thinking of freedom first, can make the difference every time.

What is freedom?