We can talk about freedom all day, march in the streets to demand it or defend it, but our actions demonstrate a completely different picture. In fact, we may say we want freedom and may fight for it, but the result always leaves a lot to be desired. We may admit that it makes us feel good to fantasize about the concept of freedom but completely have no idea of what exactly it is. 

Of course, there is a great part of freedom that we may have achieved – the political freedom, but that alone has no guarantee for the other freedoms. Even when that aspect of freedom is achieved, it is often nothing than a con job. 

Hence, even its celebration may be short-lived when we slowly realize that territorial freedom without other essential freedoms is not satisfactory. It is also very interesting that when it comes to freedom, our priorities are inherently skewed, if not screwed. 

It is like climbing a tree from the top and expect not to deal with the wrath of our weight on the tips of little branches. Our misconception is the prioritization of external freedom over internal and mental freedom – the places where true freedom is conceived. So within, so without.  Therefore, it will make no sense to chase only an aspect of freedom that is convenient. To truly achieve ultimate freedom that encompasses all other freedoms we must first free our inner world. Chaos in the outer world means chaos in our inner world as a collective. 

For when we have won the individual victory over ourselves. It becomes easier to fearlessly address and shake the walls of our invisible prison as a collective. In our collective, as internally, mentally and spiritually free people, we can then fearlessly stand up to the invisible prison walls of systems deliberately designed and envisioned to timelessly enslave us. 

We can as a collective decipher the tools of control of information that keep us in mental slumber and make us content with the loop of survival mode, and at the peril of invisible forces and masters. The invisible, with its well-fed warders pretending to be our guardians, has for too long given us the illusion of freedom. 

Yet, it is not the only one to blame for our circumstances because, for the same long time, we have also been willing accomplices to our own demise. We have completely been duped into giving away our power that we ignorantly are not even aware of. This is simply done by taking a few of us to preside over systems and tools of division and hypnosis. The aim is to give us a sense of control over our fate by pitching a brother against a sister with things such as fictional elections that will eventually not even bring peace to the stomach of a starving child. The invisible prison’s menu has on it deceptive and malnourished meals with promises of a paper after graduation, success and affluent life while infesting us with parasitical debts. 

These parasitical instruments in turn entrap us in a constant state of anxiety and distress until the day we set ourselves free or see our maker. Simply put, it is funny that a species that claims to have placed its foot on Mars has to pay to live and cannot feed its starving own, while the animals it claims to have biblical dominion over live freely with no bills.

*Uncommon Sense is published bi-weekly in the New Era with contributions from Karlos Naimwhaka. YouTube channel: Karlos Lokos

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