Is Complete Freedom
Possible?
August 3rd, 2009 by Gary
Hipworth
It is only possible when living voluntarily on
one’s own. This is rare and can be rather lonely.
One cannot be completely free when living in a group because any group, whether
family or a business or the State must have a system for making decisions that are binding on all its
members.
It is very rare that all members of a group agree to all group
decisions.
The history of group decision-making systems is a sequence of struggles by the
dominated to gain more freedom in the decision-making process.
Today, in a democracy most people have a lot more freedom than in the past but they could still have even more
freedom.
For example Direct Democracy, where people vote on policies
directly and eliminate politicians altogether (I hope I live to see that day) they have more freedom than in a
Representative Democracy. Electronic communications now makes Direct Democracy a realistic and exciting
possibility.
Of course there is inner freedom which is not reliant on external freedom of any kind.
Now that's the freedom worth having!
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