Aestu wrote:
Freedom, in the sense you describe it, is an illusion.
For you and a lot of other people, that's true. If society shut down tomorrow, you'd have no idea how to craft anything from items you'd find in nature. You'd have no idea how to plant and harvest (though that's honestly not hard), or to raise food on the hoof. The thing is, though, that modern society/economy evolved out of a pooling of
independent efforts, not for the purpose of diminishing the individual, but for the purpose of enriching the individual. Specialization didn't create a suffocating web that stifled freedom, it created a network that improved productivity to the point that one had the time and resources to indulge individual whims...many of which further enhanced and grew the network. You fail to view things this way because you find interaction with others to be an onerous obligation, and cannot perceive it as the rich opportunity it is. You think that just because you're trapped, so too must we also be. Thankfully, you're wrong.
Your Pal,
Jubber
