How your Physical Freedom is just An Illusion
In the western countries, it is believed that we have full freedom in life. We believe that we have more freedom than say people in financially poorer countries for an example, because we think that we have more choices and opportunity.
There are many "freedoms" that we believe we have as citizens.
We get to work whatever job we choose, we are free to drive a car around as we please, we can go and live where we please also. We have a huge selection of clothes that we can wear, products that make our lives less stressful,different foods,music to listen to, entertainments such as cinemas, bowling and restaurants and cafes to relax in.
Did anyone ever point it out before to you, that actually these things are just things that make us just feel that we have freedom??
What the hell does he mean that crazy guy?!
When I was still living the "House Life" (the old lifestyle I had before) I watched a documentary called ZeitGeist.
I watched all of it and after I had learnt how the society was created, religion, tax, money and the banks and laws among other things- basically everything that lead up to how it all works today. After watching this , there was a suggested short video called "people farming".
It was about how before in the "old days" of peasants and kings and how things were still running on borderline slavery.
They would delegate jobs to the folk of the country and nobody had a choice of what job they did and also they would pay tax to the king. Because of this, the people wernt so productive as they could have been if they were doing something they enjoyed instead. For instance maybe someone was mining stones and another working in the fields unhappily and slow, when they would much rather swap jobs and would been happier to do it and then be more productive also.
The same can be seen with chickens- If you make them lay eggs buy keeping them in a small cage expecting them to lay eggs in bad conditions, the amount of eggs that are produced would become very low.
On the contrary, if you let the chickens go outside and make the cages much much bigger, so now they have the choice to go in or out and be free (they dont see the fences now because its a huge cage) then you have happy chickens and will receive many more eggs from them.
You can scream at a chicken, demanding that it should be laying more eggs every day for a year - but the chicken will still lay just the same amount of eggs.
But if you scream at a human to hand over his eggs for long enough- the human will eventually give you all of his eggs.
We think we get to choose our job..
When we are young and growing up at school, people always asked us what we want to do when were older. By this of course they meant what job we wanted to do. The problem being that this false freedom of what job we can have exists because at the end of school, we all have exams and the outcome of these exams then delegates what job you get to choose -
So infact you dont actually get a real choice if you think about it.
Someone really would like to be something or other, but they dont have the needed grades from school to be free to go do it
But atleast we are free to drive a car right?!
No. As everyone knows, you arnt actually free to just go drive a car in your own country, you must first get permission.
Permission?!
Yes. Did you think that all them driving lessons needed and final tests were just so you can learn how to drive?You dont need a 100 dollar an hour driving instructor in a new car to learn how to drive, you need an airstrip or huge empty carpark, and a shitty old car. But instead you must do tests to please somebody and they then give you Permission to drive (a driving licence).
Still sounding like real freedom to you if we start to question things?!
How about the free choice of foods we eat?
Lets go now to the foods that we have available to us. All that selection in supermarkets we have such a choice to choose from. Did you know that 95% of everything sold in the average supermarkets are containing added sugar? I once did a 30 day detox from added sugars, and if you ever try the same you will see exactly how much choice there really is in the supermarkets.
If your still not getting it.. The food that you think is a variety on offer is 95% unhealthy for you and it COULD ALL BE MADE WITHOUT ADDED SUGARS.
So why all the sugars?
Sad thing is that after the second world war, people had to work a lot more to recover and rebuild after the mayhem and the governments realized that if people had more "convenient foods" to cook after a long days work, then instead of preparing a meal each night they would either have more rest like happy chickens, or be able to work longer hours, both you would think as a benefit to you, but really its not for you.
The way they were sold was "Save Time!" "They are also Cost Effective!" "And Tasty!"
Yes they were and they still are "tasty" but they are tasty because of all the added sugars in them. Humans had no kind of foods like this made in factory's until around the 1950s and it became a craze. And no wonder it became a craze because to eat so much sugar at once would have been like having your first line of really good cocaine. And everyone would have had at the time no tolerance to sugar so it would have been literally ecstasy in the brain feeling.
So here we are today - eating hidden sugars that has become our new culture and the worst thing is , eating sugary foods makes you crave even more sugar! The first line is always the best remember - but then you just want M O R E
Processed food was invented like ready made meals as a common example being advertised directed to house wives which was very welcomed by them as a convenience and it became then normal for the parents of my generation born in mid 80s to not go to the butcher for meat or the grocery store for vegetables anymore like my grandparents still did. Instead now everything was in a supermarket where all the "trendy must have foods" were now newly available and cheap. Next time you go look in the supermarket shopping, just check for example how much sugar is in a ready made meal of sweet and sour chicken and rice, and then look on your phone what the daily recommended intake of added sugars are. You can look at any food that has been processed and sure enough there will be a ton of sugars in it.
Obviously governments are very well educated and would have a great knowledge of food you would think, so how come 95% of foods available to you, are full of added sugars? They must know that its addictive and causes diabitis among other illnesses? - but still thats our "freedom of choice" of what we get to eat?? You think everywhere in the world the people go to a supermarket and buy everything with added sugars?
Dosnt all add up does it? Or it does - and it adds up to the fact that they do know what added sugars to do us and want us to be sick. Ill let you decide that one.
Follow my feed on travelling 8 years in a bus, with no money or diesel! You can do it too!
Part 1- An Escape Pod To A New Life
Part 2-Waves Goodbye
Part 3- Lost In BCN
Part 4- Still In Barceloca
Part 5- Finally Able To Move On
Part 6- Tarragona, Spain
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