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sentences and thoughts. Freedom is essentially possibility to
think and take actions. “I want to be free to kill and commit
crimes.” This is a statement that would be condemned by
anyone, but we have had them so far. Nobody declares it openly,
but hides it behind demagoguery and deceitful statements about
good intentions, such as: “On behalf of my people and in the best
interest of our country, we have to overpower the nondemocratic
government of Country X, because it is a threat to the safety
of…”
The use of the word “freedom” has to be specified. “I want to be
free because I am a slave.” The meaning is quite different from
the previous. A similar example is the word egoism, with a
positive meaning as a desire for development, but also with a
negative connotation of usurping everything for oneself. Practice
has shown that depressive and sick, but highly intelligent people
can come to power but then cause huge problems to the society.
Freedom needs to be in harmony with the society. In the whole,
with a system of democratic dialectical realism, the individual will
not be able to use demagogy for evil purposes. Nowadays, there
are many rulers (presidents, prime ministers) who use pyramid
schemes with their clientele to mask their evil deeds as acts of
good will.
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