A Withdrawal of Previously Blogged Upon Thoughts

Originally Posted 11/04/07 - http://www.myspace.com/iheartdennycraine

I said earlier that I was miffed that freedom wasn't freeI have to redefine freedom...I didn't think about it enough earlier and I lied a little bit.Thomas Jefferson made the same mistake.He said freedom was an inalienable right of man, given by God to all men. Here's the thing: Freedom is limited by nature every bit as much as it can limited by man/government/THE MAN/etc.I guess it is alienable...nothing we can do if God himself (nature) can and does limit it.Even freedom of the will (the highest kind of freedom according to Augustine) is limited by natureI may will to go to China, but unless I have either a really sweet canoe or a couple thousand dollars, no can do! There's an ocean between me and china. So, I have to pay someone to get there. I have to work to make money to pay someone to get there. Alas, I'm not entirely free to go to china on a whim....In my previous rant, I cried about the fact that I have to pay tax for the freedom to own a home. Here's the thing. I don't think there is such a thing as freedom to own a home (real estate property). We are not free (assuming freedom is some kind of sick, half-gift of God as Thomas Jefferson and I seem to agree) to possess land. That's stupid. We don't have that right. Whoever decided we could possess land needs to be burned. Not that I want to be a big hippy, but it's just absolutely wrong to say that I should have the freedom to possess a piece of nature. But I live a slave to the society that owns me. And so I'll keep my house, thankyou very much....and I'll pay that tax happily....but not the auto use tax...or the passport tax...I'll keep right on complaining about them.