Liberating

I'll tell you a thing or two about "liberating experiences". You've had one, maybe two that you can think of. You center on them, you focus and say to yourself that was THE moment. But it probably wasn't. I'm betting your "liberating experience" was just another notch in your record of "learned something". Sure, it opened your eyes to something, it might have opened something up for you, or made you see something you didn't see up until then. Sure, you may have changed some of your behaviour, maybe. But "liberating"? What did you discover that set you free?

You maybe had an orgasm for the first time? Discovered you could manipulate someone close to you and get away with it? Ran a red light when no one was looking? These are normal learning experiences, not "liberating experiences". Being liberated is a concept that smacks of freedom, meaning you got more options and had some choices to make, consciously.

Let me take you another step. If you're thinking you're liberated, or free, you're going the wrong direction. The more you know, the less choice you have. That's a fact. You may have the freedom to choose, the freedom to decide what you do or even say (that's going away), but when you KNOW a thing will happen, do you really have a choice? Maybe, assuming you have zero conscience. What if you know your actions will result in your death? Choice? Sure. The death of a hundred. The death of a thousand. Extinction. You see it? If you know an action will result (eventually) in something really bad or really good, what choice do you have? Knowing, are you liberated?

The trouble with being liberated is the assumption that it absolves us of responsibility. Somehow, we all want to be free without realizing that true freedom is actually a lack of responsibility. Liberating experiences, then, can't be things that set us free. They have to be things that are, in essence, lies. If not lies, then selfish motivations with no value outside the self. Lies. Deceptions. Evil.

Please. Tell us all about the lies you've swallowed to justify your selfish behaviour.

(fiendish grin)