Freedom is one of the most sought after ideas and dangerous aspects of our lives. We all wish to have it and at the same time try to restrict that of others. Rules make us feel safe until they don’t. This page explores some of these ideas and things that I have found and learned over the years.

January 2025. My time consists of a few things that I do: experiencing what happens in my neighborhood, actively searching for marginal voices in society, understanding what money is and how the economic system works, and spending time on personal things I care much about.

Freedom for me is the freedom to spread peaceful freedoms around me. That is like making the pie bigger and understanding how that pie can be made bigger. Free speech is not perse freedom; I actually don’t need it. It is like giving the wolf or dog free speech. They already have it. They just act naturally in their habitats. You only need free speech if you want to make sure someone can take it away from you.

This is my biggest revelation in the last few years. The implications of gifts, that can be taken away from you. Why bother? As the saying goes: ‘You can bring the horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink’. Free speech is like the horse. It doesn’t necessarily help you to drink from the well.

Freedom is like ‘wild’. I have thought long about what it means to be wild. I think it most resembles ‘all rights reserved’. I can be as free as I want and go along with you or something, until I don’t. Like animals especially wild animals know this. They sometimes play along with us, until they don’t. They keep their wildness, their independence. Their freedom.

The next time when I will return to this page; I will explore how I and others keep their freedom. How I defend it while making sure that others benefit from it, because I don’t like fire in my backyard.