There is no escaping limits. I've never understood why so many are scared of this. There are a lot of different ways that we use the term freedom, and the ideals that it represents within the given context are highly significant to the respective system they're used within. Freedom has developed an imaginative space for exploration that allows our most institutions to adapt in moments that would seem too hard. Economic freedom persistently gives our economics the imaginative fuel that maintains several values and ideas that are valued in the society for which it operates. Imbued in the idea of 'economic freedom', and its ambiguities, are ideas like 'sufficiency', 'efficiency', 'equality', etc. This idea of freedom extends to other social systems as well, from art, education, organization, government, city planning.
But, it's because of its ambiguity that it can never really be defined specifically or realized wholly. The idea of freedom is limited in its actualization, but boundless in its idealization.
Freedom can also result in what I'm alluding to in the title. Now, obviously, there is no space where one is never being told what to do. Right now, by subscribing to the English language, I'm doing what I've been told to do, albeit in order so that I can have some way of communicating. It's a productive tension. Personal expression through social norms. What I miss specifically, however, is someone setting a goal for me to accomplish, and it being a goal that is mutually beneficial and stimulating. This is the dream. Not the goal, but the work.
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