"Bearing in mind the health and state of our western culture and so...

There are some really great minds on board the @ecotrain and our driver @eco-alex makes sure to come up with questions and to make us come up with questions that really make us think and unleash our thirst to find out the deeper truth behind things. This time the qotw is exactly on that line too and the @ecotrain passengers are asked to give their views on:

Bearing in mind the health and state of our western culture and society today, do you think we have too much freedom?

Here is my take on it.

I read the answers by @eco-alex, @mountainjewel and @trucklife-family on the question before penning down my answer and all of them presented brilliant ideas which were more or less what I thought of too. The crux of their answers and what I have in mind is that honestly we aren't really free. In fact, we aren't free at all. Freedom like @eco-alex beautifully elaborated in his post comes with attaining full knowledge on something. When you know something inside out then only you can make an informed decision pertinent to it and can be free enough to make your choice. However, I think one can never have full knowledge on everything be it anything. There are always not one, not two but multiple sides to something and we can never be completely educated on that. Yes, we can try to get to the very bottom of things and can even be 99.99% sure of things but I honestly believe we can never understand anything 100% be it anything. Yes, things like food can be understood completely but even then, I feel we can never be sure of anything.

A huge reason behind that is that the government and the affluent people who own the places in the world play everything by their rules and are ruling our lives one way or the other. Whatever happens to us, in our countries and regions, be it east or west is affected by their decisions. I remember when I was young, there were ads run on television by the government that lamb isn't good for your health. Years later we found out that the government wanted to favor those who owned the poultry farms which is why they ran such media campaign. Few years back, I saw a similar campaign on television, this time on why poultry isn't good for us. Turns out now the government wanted to favor those who owned lamb and cow farms. So you see, be it the west or east, we are pretty much functioning on the same parameters and it is those i power and those with financial influence that make sure only that amount of information reaches which won't equip us with enough knowledge to harm them. From within, we know how we are being ruled like puppets and how our freedom is being sabotaged but since we fear dying a cruel death or being taken away from our loved ones, we dare not speak the truth. I am honestly sometimes afraid that if I dare speak openly about something I believe in and go at lengths to broadcast it, those who disagree with me will come after me. That has happened several times in Pakistan and across the globe and sadly that will continue to happen. So yeah with a heavy heart, I proclaim that we aren't free and do not have the freedom we deserve and need.

But this now brings me to another aspect of the question. What if we were free? What if we all knew everything and weren't governed by any law or rule or decorum? Since all of us have a different way of thinking and perceiving and we clearly take right and wrong as different things, how would our freedom affect us then? Would there be more chaos, disagreement and bloodshed around? Or if we have true freedom, we wold be completely knowledgeable on things and that would then make us think in unison with another and live in harmony? These are questions I am still constantly asking myself and pondering on, but since I think one can never be fully aware of everything so I feel maybe complete freedom would bring about more confusion. What do you think?

Until next time,

Love and light,

Sharoon.

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