Insipid Bromide ... Made Real

[StrictlyLogical]

I just wanted to make an observation on a Friday leading into, hopefully a great weekend..

 

 

We have all heard the statement "The truth will set you free".  This is somewhat of an insipid bromide, and it pertains mostly to the relief of the cessation of evasion, self-denial, or dishonesty.  Relief from the guilt and the stress/worry of being caught or from being in a state of dis-integration.  The relief from the self inflicted problems of vices is not like setting one's self free, it's more like taking one's hand out of the burning fire he never should have idiotically placed his hand into.

 

For us Objectivists however this statement, used in a different context, reflects a reality few non-Objectivists, if any, would understand.

 

We all (almost all) were raised in and indoctrinated with religion, false dichotomies, evasion, disintegration, duty, rationalism, intrinsicism,.. these all create actual mental prisons.  Prisons in the sense that they restrict freedom of thought and action in ways which are not rational, valid, properly justified, nor in accordance with reality, and from which the prisoner, to the extent of his ignorance, is helpless to escape.  When one discovers the truth, the Axioms, what morality IS, what rights are, i.e. Objectivism, even though the structures around us remain, the religions, the statism, the public consensus in irrationality etc., one nevertheless has been literally, albeit only mentally and spiritually, set free by that discovery.  In this way the truth HAS set you free.

 

On a Friday perhaps it is a nice thing to remember in the face of all of the coercion and unjust initiation of force upon your lives... .at least you have found a way, the truth, to free yourself from the mental and spiritual prison you once occupied!

 

Have a great weekend!

Edited August 1, 2014 by StrictlyLogical

[JASKN]

Although Objectivism opened my eyes to a bunch of irrational crap that I otherwise may not have interpreted correctly or recognized, Objectivism has also led me to see how pointless it is to waste any more time thinking on, hanging around with, angry at, or worried about it than the very minimum necessary... and then moving on and forward.