r . i . p . Moses of late @ Whitley and Hollywood Blvd . blessings . . into the great beyond . ·*
Q: what is the opposite of freedom?
A: insta-answer: per googol · either "do no evil" or "do know evil", your call
“According to the Collins Thesaurus, the most likely antonym for freedom is “slavery.” However because the word ‘freedom’ has a complex and nuanced meaning, concepts like “dependence” or “limitation” may also be considered its opposite”
I’m leery of beginning any discussion with a definition - for example the next sentence in this essay was to begin with the word “elstwhy” as in "erstwhile", but unable to locate in any search - any · ; nor would i ever emulate William F. Buckley who once declared in the preface of a Webster's dictionary, and i paraphrase “if you want to know the meaning of a word, ask me” - i don’t know? how do you spell "h u b r i s" ? Is it too much to ask that the language we use be a little more pliant in service of understanding, or at the very least, accessible, meaning pliant for everyone, not just the landed gentry?
“Strike Three” you’re . . . , for within three 'sort of' paragraphs on an essay about freedom, i am stymied by a lack of legitimate foundation for simple appropriate word usage. Small wonder our youth are in revolt when what we present as a language framework is incohesive - strike 4 ? Apple’s much vaunted RTF schema for writers everywhere just disallowed the word “incohesive,” with glaring little red dots underlying my word selection - WTF · (like FTS, but different)
How do we get to freedom from here? With every fiber of my corporal being i struggle to be free: of greed, hatred and delusion. I seek happiness - the absence of greed, hatred and delusion. Yet here i sit tethered to a delusion that you, the reader, seek the same - the delusion is mine, not yours. How is this freedom? A man i recently met in the company of my “sainted” mother answered when asked, how does one atone for my people’s behavior toward Black Africans? his reply, “I do what i enjoy and want to do more of that.” Can freedom be that simple? G_d, the female, i conceive you to be, please “make it so.”
This may be the shortest essay i’ve ever attempted; an irony being 'that' freedom is/was, the word i'd 'essay'? Ma - bless her stars - has a yen to extirpate the word “that” from my vocabulary, is that her freedom, or my lack of 'individuation'?
I’ve just eaten a world-class sourdough bread sandwich in a non-European country with cacao tinged frijoles and am washing it down with a whiskey, lemon, turmeric, cayenne and beer concoction - is that freedom . ? . i don't know, but it's fun to ask.
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slavery might become demonic if . . .
slavery is demonic - or they lied -
with "what, when, where, why, how" disparity.
Believe me not; ask the kings and queens who died
whispering, dear g_d "I want to be free."
Quaint i know, talking smack like we don't got
all those 'rights' right at the end of our wrists¿
Can's help feeling like some robot
spinning thread between fine, thick greedy grist.
Silly me seeing power not possible;
when all you can reflect is what you see.
We are dying; eminently reflectable;
not by what i say, but from what we be.
What fun to know, there is not more to find
than some small question in the back of my mind.
(˚ ㄥ _˚)
jts 26/8/2016
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