The freedom and the word "no"

From the beginning, humanity has wanted to free itself from its oppressors, from
everything that would limit it, be it other humans, dangers or whatever. The
primordial search of the human being is that of freedom. But how free are we, and
what is freedom? If we ask this question to someone who has spent his whole life
inside walls without being able to go out because of the dangers outside, freedom for
him is that of a pigeon, free to go wherever he wants whenever he wants. For a
person who has been constantly told what to do and what to be, freedom is that
which ordinary people have, who are able to choose what they want to be and when
they want to do it. Finally, for a person who has lost his loved ones and parts of his
body due to his ignorance and the rules of the world, freedom is found in knowing
everything and being able to face the truth, the essence of the world itself, god. But
although all these ideas of freedom may seem perfect, you will not be entirely free.
Close your eyes and imagine that you are in an empty space, there is nothing and
nobody, you have no body and matter is non-existent, it is only you, your
consciousness, your mind. That is perfect freedom, where there is nothing and no
one to limit our actions, but even there, we are not free.

 
Even though in that empty space we have the power of a god, the moment we
exercise it and create whatever it is, we are creating a limitation. If we do not create
a body, we would be limited by the form of the body, if we create a space to stand in
we lose another limitation and if we create a second consciousness we lose another
piece of our freedom. It is in this way that perfect freedom becomes a paradox in
which we are completely free, but the instant we make use of our freedom, we lose
it. 

 

So let's think about our first subject, the one who lives inside the walls and dreams of being free as a dove and being able to leave his prison. What will happen when he comes out of the cave? Our character finds himself in a situation similar to that of Plato's cave, where the only thing he knows is what he has been taught inside the wall and is completely ignorant about what is outside it, about the dangers that exist, if in fact these dangers exist, or if there are other dangers that are constantly pushing his civilization to live inside its cloister. As soon as he comes out of the cave and learns the truth of the world, his idea of freedom will be altered and he will fight to get it because now that he has tasted the freedom of leaving his prison, he will not want to lose his freedom again and this has made him a slave of his fundamental principle, he is the slave of his freedom.
 

In the second case, in which he has been told what he has to do, what he has to be,
our subject who wants to be free to choose, his struggle is an internal one, the
moment he is given the freedom to choose, he will be overwhelmed by the options
and will go back to doing the only thing he knows how to do, what he is told to.
That is why it is necessary to start with small choices, because the freedom to
choose seems overwhelming to many people, so much so, that they would give
anything to be in the place of our character, in a situation where they are not given
the option to choose who they are and become the actors in a play. There are
people who are overwhelmed by freedom and people who crave it.

 
The last case, the one who wants to know everything and be the holder of the truth
of the world, to be able to face the rules of the world, at the beginning sounds like the
only one who would reach his ideal without problems, assuming that he achieves the
so unreal feat, but what would he do after achieving his goal, what do you do with so
much freedom, sharing that knowledge is an option, but you would become a slave
of the work of sharing it, even if you write a book, the message will always be
misinterpreted, modified and altered for the benefit of those who know the truth and
the moment you decide to become the master of all you become the slave of all,
because who is the master without the slave?

 
So our freedom will always be limited, we are not unlike the Angelus Novus in Walter
Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History." "There is a painting by Klee called
Angelus Novus. In it he shows an angel who seems about to walk away from
something that has him paralyzed. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open and his
wings are outstretched; this is how one imagines the Angel of History. His face is
turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees a unique
catastrophe that heaps ruin upon ruin and throws it at his feet. He would like to stop,
awaken the dead and rebuild the shattered, but from Paradise blows a hurricane that
blows tangled in his wings, and which is so strong that the angel can no longer close them. This hurricane pushes him irresistibly toward the future, to which he turns his back, while the debris rises before him to the sky. That hurricane is what we call progress." But unlike this angel who is floating aimlessly with his eyes on the past, we have a freedom that has been granted and that we sometimes ignore, the freedom to say "No", to say "No" to the dangers outside the cave of our ignorance, to say "No" to those who do not say what we are meant to be and do and the greatest of all, to say "No" to the world and its truth, to face God and his divine plan that drags us down with it in the form of progress. Our freedom is found in one of the simplest words there is, in saying "No".