"Observations on the Myth of Freedom." - Marco M.

Observations on the Myth of Freedom.

The contemporary myth of freedom would have us free to choose over everything, going beyond nature itself. To have children when you can't have them naturally, to have no reins and cultural boundaries, to be able to love everyone universally, to choose what gender to be, to stay young, to live forever.

All these unnatural desires result in despair and loss, and if that is not intellectually clear, just walk the streets of one of our cities and look at people's faces. What do they convey to you?

Children should be a set of duties and not a right. To love everyone means to intellectualize Love, to make it a concept, with the only result of not loving anyone in an authentic way.

Every heritage sets limits that should not be judged by those who belong to other cultures. Cultural uprooting, i.e. globalization and the myth of the "citizen of the world", results in the total loss of identity and the possibility of having an authentic connection with the people who share it.

The gender we were born in has nothing to do with sexual preferences. As far as I'm concerned, as long as you're consenting, one  can do whatever they want with their sexuality. I don't even care, even if I confess that I am disturbed by the need to make sex spectacular.

The attempt to always look young creates ridiculous caricatures and, above all, eliminates the possibility of enjoying the beauty of maturity and old age.

If we could live forever, and it is not certain that we will not soon become almost immortal, it would take away the space for the enjoyment of life itself, which would be emptied of all meaning.

What I am trying to affirm is that the limit is not a problem but is a fundamental part of the beauty and possibility of Loving. Perhaps the space that can be defined as "freedom" is not to be sought horizontally but vertically, perceiving the eternal in the present moment and in the beauty of which it is always the bearer.   In other words, be in quality instead of quantity.

m.m.