3. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assi...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I subscribe to the philosophy of soft determinism, in that free will isn't necessarily the control one has over their own lives, but the ability to act on decisions that come from within. However our lives are set up in a deterministic sense, but within it we can act out free will. So for example, you're born in a rich family, you probably can do whatever you want compared to a poor person of Zulu descent in Soweto during Apartheid. The Zulu person suffers from being unfree because of the will of government imposed on them. For example a Zulu person goes home at 3:00, you ask them why it is because they are forced from the city for being black, the rich capitalist goes home at 3:00 you ask them, it's because they wanted to. The capitalist was free to choose to go home, where as the Zulu was forced and unfree, despite both having the same outcome.

Now being unfree isn't just limited to other humans but even by nature. Gandhi hasn't eaten in 3 weeks, you ask him why and he says that he is protesting. You find a man in a desert who hasn't eaten in 3 weeks it's because he can't find any food. Even though he wants to eat he is unfree by nature, whereas Gandhi is free and is choosing to suffer.

Now with the removal of the state, currency, etc. comes with the removal of power over people. People are now and will always be free from the oppression and tyrany brought on by others. However the possibility being unfree from nature will always be present in our lives.

However with society comes with the illusion of the control of nature. In that the states can appear to provide order in the natural world, even though this is impossible.

What people fear from anarchy is the illusion being gone and the truth present. The risks of what nature can do to us versus the illusion that we are free from the universe's grasp. They will not make the journey until they understand that this is the natural order of things, entropy and chaos is what drives the universe forward, in our foolish attempt to impose order we end up sacrificing too much.

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