Americans won their freedoms from the British in the American
Revolution to own slaves and exterminate Indians. The British
made a big mistake of proclaiming to free the slave one hundred years
too early in Charleston, North
Carolina, and an even bigger mistake of
trying to take the guns away from the mob who was destined to turn the
entire world one day into a freedom land of one man, one gun.
Prevailing strategy on freedom
has it that the
world is divided into haves(freedom) and have-nots.
America has generously offer the have-nots a choice: accept freedom or
accept smart bombs. But reality has its own strategy, as manifested
either
through polite rejection or outright
terrorism. Things are just not that
simple. There is a third group -- the
dont-wannas. And what they dont want is
freakdoom, disguised as freedom.
In the past when the world was still young and innocent, hollywood movies set the trend. But today our shrinking world allows everyone to clearly see where everyone else is coming from. Many see that they want things to last longer than movies' 2-weeks span of influence. In fact, most culturally oriented civilizations typically plan out their destinies hundreds of generations into the future. In short, young civilizations want freedom, but old ones fear freakdoom.
What has been tipping the balance on
who's right is military might. While
this makes freedom looking like it could
"endure eternally", it also strikes such
terror into the anti-freakdoomers that
they see the only way out is to
outterror such terror.
But the pre-preemptive strike on 911 is an example of a wakeup
call unheeded.
The Maryland
sniping from the trunk of a car by two Muslim converts has
also been dismissed as
a freak crime. But they thought they were declaring war on
freakdoom.
The new gained
freedom by Bushmen to build the next-generation
weaponry is a big step toward
the ultimate freakdoom -- the doomsday.
Oh yes, there is the freedom of religion. But religion itself
is the opium for the insecure minds. It has served as an
alternative to alcohol, drug and
psychoanalysis. Just look how many religious faithfuls are former
and even present alcoholics and drug addicts.
Delegating their consciences to a higher authority, these faithfuls
enjoy the freedom to declare and destroy evil. And when the evil
ones are also religious, the freedoms to do terror and counter terror
put all of us under a mushroom of terror.
Chinese freed themselves from religion five thousand years ago when
they become fully grown human
beings independent of any higher imaginary authorities like gods.
And now they are again stuck with the sticky problem of
freakdoom of religion demanded by the faithfuls and ex-alcoholics from
America's land of freedom in the name of human rights.
Oh yes, what about human rights? When human rights replaces
human responsibilities, you get freakdoom.
Culture is the most intangible of
intangibles. It would shrink at the
utter of a vulgar word, but could
transform the most powerful army into
farmers. In the forms of freedom, many social abberations expedient to
politics, economics and technology
have replaced culture. The surprising
answer to the millenium question may be
that freedom and freakdoom are one and
the same.