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Costs of Freedom

The value of individual freedom seems impossible to quantify without at least knowing, What is this freedom for? What is this freeing political and economic purpose? Will my freedom and your egalitarian side by side sometimes competitive sometimes cooperatively multi-sided liberty liberate us to live in robust wealth of interdependent multicultural health? Is this individual freedom's disvalue to die in unhealthy, boring, lonely, divisive pathology of pretend autonomy for individualistic lack of thriving polycultural wealth? Challenged by economic and social distancing, Stuck in quantitative and qualitative commodity losses, both monetized and uncommunicated values for healthy wealth of democratic multicultures felt robustly freeing resonant resilient health systems thriving through win/win interdependent communications where we have leisurely and always sufficient time to take a warm breath together Revaluing messages reminiscent of earlier critical nationalistic times when The only thing we had to fear was straight white patriarchal nationalistic fear itself. Today, the only thing we must not tolerate is straight white patriarchal privileged intolerance articulating leftbrain monocultural predation itself. The only thing we must not individualistically punish, and thereby further empower, is retributive vindictiveness our monoculturing colonizing supremacist selves. The only nationalistic freedom value we must not shun is our own interdependent guilt itself For the undemocratic unhealthy society we too often tolerate at least within our freedom envious selves Discovering commodified monopolizing monotonizing industrialized militarized win/lose communication value is too expensive, yet I too often empower asset envy of Others, especially those felt as outside my own extended family Thereby dissociated from my polarizing ego freedom values for continuing business as nationalistically and autonomously usual monopolizing partisan patriotic unfreedom reacting against loyal liberating EarthJustice patriotism rooted in multigenerational co-empathic interdependent identity. The value of individual freedom seems impossible to quantify without at least knowing how is this freedom for Earth-enlightened co-empowerment of healthy communicating lives multiculturing multi-generational wealth of sacredly reflected secular multisensory neurologically systemic win/win through win/lose experience? Not lose/lose nihilistic denial deflective dissonant absence of ego-liberating ecosystemic conserving co-operating memories.

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