If we lived in a society where people could be free to live and speak,

[Deja Q]

what would you say? What would you do?

Is 'free will' only an unobtainable illusion, a dream conjured up by philosophers who otherwise have no purpose in life?

And is the concept of 'power to the people' a farce, invented by those in power to determine who their opponents are?

And now, I'm off to go eat breakfast: Wheaties, substituting milk with Drambuie.

[truhavoc]

1. The problem is that we are allowed to freely live and speak

but that our freedoms are bound by laws, and the desire to "fit in". Who make the laws that we are bound by....the people. The problem is that the people have the perception that they are powerless to the "machine" and pereception is reality. So in the end, we all the potentiality to be truly free, however the people choose against it.

This philosopher feels he has a purpose in life...to change that...

[Deja Q]

2. Which means we really don't freely live or speak.

To claim one thing but do the other is facetious, and not in a funny way.

And those who choose to speak freely get knocked down, labeled with trumped up psychological conditions, and ostracized.

Anyone who claims we are a nation of individuals yet looks and acts like everyone else is a lemming. Or a cabbage in a large patch; all looking the same. This is freedom?

But why should I be surprised? Most of the * supporters think he is working for them.