Monday’s Musing

{book at hand, random page}

Claims of the freedom advocates, like all other claims, are subject to the rule of reason. There is no such thing as a free person in the strict meaning of the term. Basic to human life are the drastic limitations inherent in the structure and functioning of the human organism. Each is at the mercy of the self, but in addition to self-limitation there are the multiple restraints imposed by Mother Nature and by the specific social environment in which the individual is entangled and embedded. Beyond the ignorance, stupidity, blunders and lack of consideration which each individual encounters every day, are the restrictions deliberately imposed by the power age environment. Among the factors in the enviroment restricting the choices and actions of the individual none is more restrictive or omnipresent than the authority of the power age state. ~ Scott Nearing, from Freedom: Promise and Menace, A Critique on the Cult of Freedom