Banachs Lecture IV

"Are we free?" I would like to believe we are free but to society we are imprisoned by its surrounding structures and rules.

Physically we are not as free as we choose to be because of the laws, limits and rules our bodies cannot follow such as flying by growing a pair of wings, or running super fast and becoming the president without some elite education, etc. But I think we are free mentally. Who is it to tell us what to think, they can't be our brains. We freely allowed to think whatever we like because it's our minds and ours minds abide by only "our" rules.

Even though I say we are mentally free there is still people who put things in our head to make us think. I still think all together we are not free until it is "unlocked." How to unlock it? Death. Dark thought isn't it. But maybe it is true. Russian Novelist Fyodor Dostoebsky met freedom after facing death. Just before waiting his turn in execution in a Czar camp "he got a reprieve. It turned out that he was to be sent to a labor camp instead and that this had merely been a cruel joke." You might imagine that after facing death, the next thing you can think is "freedom." And for the one minute, one second he felt it. The value of freedom and what freedom cost.

Please don't go out there and try to kill yourselves to feel this thought of Absolute Freedom, its only for a minute anyway.