The Lost Cause (chapter 1) (work in progress)

Chapter 1: Freedom, sir? - (Which prisoner would not prefer freedom? Which slave would not want rights? Are we in a position to decide?)

Human instinct can be devised around the notion of the removal of free will. We have become so indoctrinated that we do not declare a person free even in our speech. A sociopath behaves a certain way, and a priest, and a politician as well. It's the ones who declare such a way of mind, and being specific, when their notions of regard, and belief has been found, around this, or that peculiar act, in a conceptualized framework within us, and our society.

A politician will see a terrorist differently than the average sheep farmer, and even more specifically, a hostage negotiator will do the same. Who is correct? No one. They all predetermine response in the terrorist, and are therefor positively, or negatively biased. A person expected to behave a certain way, and therefor respond, has its own freedom removed from him or herself. Why? Because theoretically one must not believe that choice of movement, and response is the result of freedom. Choice has nothing to do with freedom. The removal of all indoctrinated instincts have. Literacy is an indoctrinated instinct. One submits to a common ground similarly attuned to other beings that has had the same input, and output in their lives to placard a removal of the true motivational instinct, which is freedom.

Freedom can also be described as the allowance of mind, and being to not be subordinated to a response. In meditation the key benefactor is the removal of the passions, and the senses to calm the mind, and relax furthermore into a state of transitory bliss that announces in oneself the need, and the creed for no need, and no creed. A deadened state essentially, where bliss, and communion is found. It can never be found without the association to be living, and therefor cannot be a reality in itself without relying on the reality, or existence of other realities. One still has a name, and a place, and one may even be unconscious of it during the course of meditation, but one cannot be removed from it, for it is an escape, or an alternative, to that which has been described as daunting, or mind-binding.

This chapter deals with the notions that has bound philosophy to the whole of human existence, and has found that we are never free without a common sense, and understanding of reality. To summarize; our collective state is an individualistic state, where our forms, and norms are driven on the statute of regard, and disregard. Nowhere can we rest without being rested.

Humanity has first achieved unity with the declaration of its species as a whole. When we found this decisive act on the notion of the term, and the reality, we have made a step further away from other possible destinies. As soon as we constructed language we have constructed demise. Now all our steps, and our movements have now been declared suitable along the lines of an animal believed to have been found liberated from its ignorance, and it is that which surrounds us even more in the dense forests of the Amazon that denies us our true liberty of “mind” and “being” (terms utilized strongly in this text).

We have now found our real challenge. To construct freedom within the confines of slavery. We must make due with what we have, and the peace that surrounds us has call out for a true motivation of resistance, and revolution. As I said, philosophy is the sole reason why people have troubled themselves more on the problems of freedom found missing in our society instead of troubling themselves with freedom itself. It is an unexplored domain, found only in the illiterate world of the cave monsters of ages past. We argue that some peoples are free still in our world, but we dare not allow ourselves to believe that we are just as passionate, and fanatical as they are about their cultures, and societies as we are. We rely on the abundance of captivity centers abound in our world, to instead decide on the so-called world either unfounded, or lost by us. The realms of freedom, which can possibly be found closer in a computer, or console game than in our own living rooms where we play it. Freedom is intoxicating, but slavery is even more a potent beverage, or potion. Why? Because we do not dare leave a soul behind while we resolutely trespass the land of the Devil to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is as if we would rather create a fancy than have no fancy at all.

So, where do we start, after all of this? To paint a picture one must have an image in ones mind, or in ones perception, to be able to create it with the materials at your disposal, whether they be digital, or physical. The world has gone so far in its own indoctrinated state, that we think some things to be permanent, and required. In this instance we are discussing the penal code, as well as detention centers, and penitentiaries abound across the world, and in our backyards, out of sight, and out of mind, and whether these realities, or circumstances, or conditions, are actually permanent, and required. Permanent as in whether they have always been found in our system since the rise of humanity. Part of our human psychological, and physiological structure. Also required as in whether they will forever be part of humanity. Its future state. Whether it will be abolished, or altered in its current form to something quite different.

The prison system as described by the likes of Foucault, and Camus could merely be seen as a choice in our society. A place that does not need to exist. Not because only it is to a certain degree inhumane, but also that it seems to be wholly ineffective. As a place of restraint it is relevant, as a place of rehabilitation, and reintegration it is left only with a small amount of success. Not because of the individuals imprisoned, but rather because of the structure within these institutions. It is more a place of oppression, and denigration, other than what it is supposed to be, humane. A place of master, and slave. To announce to the world on the inside that man needs to be punished for his supposed sins. If one were to look closely at this though, a number of questions do arise. One, what is sin, or rather transgression? Two, what is institutionalized captivity centers in general, other than supposed to be a ward of society from these “criminals”? Three, the idea of punishment is kept away from society, the ones who adhere to our current moral code, where one can ask if “punishment” is seen as effective to create a just society? Four, lastly, are we as a society justified to incorporate a system of imprisonment on the basis of sin, or morality, when said structure in itself can be seen as inhumane, or ineffective? Much will be repeated in this chapter for it is quite a simple matter in itself, but one should not be confused as to believe that for a prison is humane it is adequate, and excused as to its existence. Whether it is legal, or not.

Let us next consider the position of the captive, the “criminal”. It is assumed that within the state of states we see a situation of duality. The imprisonment of our natural moral capabilities, or fetish, to a Church based, government based, majority based code, justifying punishment, the imprisonment, and persecution of people who disobey these made up laws. Naturally one can assume that man can do what he wants like other animals, but for some reason humans have indicated for quite some time that he is justified in kidnapping people from their natural state, their reality, into a structure where they are being manipulated, controlled, and monitored, for the betterment, and improvement of the outside structure found within society, which is an absurd notion of a term we call community, or basically, “unity”. The demand for justice due to a transgression is found solely in belief, and opinion. We gossip beyond belief to justify our own existence above that of someone else.

Erich Fromm, the psychoanalyst/humanist philosopher, said that man in its entire form cannot use force to vanquish force. It is an immoral act justified only by Old Testament commandments, and State based instructions. Yes this may seem quite obvious, though this justified method of conceptualizing reality is merely a fantasy.