If someone would ask me what is the definition of time, I would immediately announce my ignorance by saying: “I don’t know”. But then I start hearing the beat of the pendulum clock that is right next to me; the answer seems to be there. But it isn’t. When such clock runs out of rope, the machine stops working. Not even a mirror, which shows that I am not longer what I was five years ago, would define time – it only explains what time does to us.
Time has, at least for me, no universal definition. The same is true with freedom. They are so abstract that only the greatest minds of history could draw reasonable conclusions upon their true meaning. I’m not here, however, to refute the descriptions the dictionary has for these words. Although the concept of time is very interesting, I’ve already analyzed it in past blogs, when relating it to a river; for both are simultaneously at all parts. Now, I will try to analyze, in depth, the effects of freedom in today’s community.
Plato clearly emphasizes in his book “The Republic”, that an excess of freedom leads to an excess of slavery. I agree with this statement just in part. A country with absolute freedom, means one with no laws, with no rules, were everyone does what they want. In short, total freedom is equivalent to anarchy. If you get robbed no one is punished, because there is no justice system; the individual is on top of everything. Now, in the other hand, we see the similar page of the story. In a dictatorship one has to obey, by all means, the orders of the president. His word has the same power as the word of God. The dictator is looked as a divinity; he is thought to be almighty. In that sense, another person (the dictator) owns your life. In both, absolute freedom and absolute control, slavery prevails. Democracy seems to be the solution. But this is only when talking about a nation, a huge group of people with different believes and principles, with no trust in each other. If I was asked what would be the adequate method for a closed group, I would respond, with out a doubt, total freedom –IA, hint, hint.
When we are told that there is a fixed way to do stuff and there is no space for any exploratory work, we program our minds to think inside a rubric. The typically mediocre student will keep being so, because he is not motivated to do what he or she likes. In fact, he is discouraged by all the bad grades he keeps on scoring, and reaches a point were no interest is given whatsoever. When being on a free, flexible environment, however, autonomy arises. And then people starts to surprise us with beautiful works, because they start to believe in what they do. It is then, when we feel we are autonomous, that we can eloquently recite the clever quote of “The Imitation Game” (great movie by the way): “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one imagines.”
Time has, at least for me, no universal definition. The same is true with freedom. They are so abstract that only the greatest minds of history could draw reasonable conclusions upon their true meaning. I’m not here, however, to refute the descriptions the dictionary has for these words. Although the concept of time is very interesting, I’ve already analyzed it in past blogs, when relating it to a river; for both are simultaneously at all parts. Now, I will try to analyze, in depth, the effects of freedom in today’s community.
Plato clearly emphasizes in his book “The Republic”, that an excess of freedom leads to an excess of slavery. I agree with this statement just in part. A country with absolute freedom, means one with no laws, with no rules, were everyone does what they want. In short, total freedom is equivalent to anarchy. If you get robbed no one is punished, because there is no justice system; the individual is on top of everything. Now, in the other hand, we see the similar page of the story. In a dictatorship one has to obey, by all means, the orders of the president. His word has the same power as the word of God. The dictator is looked as a divinity; he is thought to be almighty. In that sense, another person (the dictator) owns your life. In both, absolute freedom and absolute control, slavery prevails. Democracy seems to be the solution. But this is only when talking about a nation, a huge group of people with different believes and principles, with no trust in each other. If I was asked what would be the adequate method for a closed group, I would respond, with out a doubt, total freedom –IA, hint, hint.
When we are told that there is a fixed way to do stuff and there is no space for any exploratory work, we program our minds to think inside a rubric. The typically mediocre student will keep being so, because he is not motivated to do what he or she likes. In fact, he is discouraged by all the bad grades he keeps on scoring, and reaches a point were no interest is given whatsoever. When being on a free, flexible environment, however, autonomy arises. And then people starts to surprise us with beautiful works, because they start to believe in what they do. It is then, when we feel we are autonomous, that we can eloquently recite the clever quote of “The Imitation Game” (great movie by the way): “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one imagines.”