The World and the Word

                                                                Freedom versus Tyranny

Some people actually become tired of being free. They desire to submit to strict controls over their lives. These types of people often join religious cults or oppressive political systems. They do not fear freedom as much as they fear not being able to avoid taking responsibility for the choices they make. They fear making a wrong choice and perhaps having to suffer for the rest of their lives because of it. They only desire to give up their freedom and become submissive. If they suffer for wrong choices made for them, they can take comfort in being blameless. For some reason, these types of people take pleasure in becoming as insignificant as possible and only used and abused for the pleasure of those who control them. These people really boost the already inflated egos of their controllers.

All controllers seek to expand their controls over more people. The intelligent ones often use very clever tricks and deceptions in order to gain that control. For example, certain controllers have learned to use even the goodness of a good person against them. Good people desire to be fair and compassionate, but clever controllers try to convince them that as individuals they are not compassionate enough. The controllers convince these good people that they need to join their cult or political movement that will ensure greater fairness and compassion for everyone once that system takes control. But actually, that controller only seeks to gain control of that good person in order to use them to help support a cruel and oppressive system that will never show any fairness or compassion.

In the past, controllers used physical oppression, such as slavery and torture, to maintain control. Many still do today. But in modern times, controllers have learned that in free societies those methods no longer work. Instead, they have turned to bribery as one of their methods of control. They convince some people that if they will only submit to their form of government, they will receive a lot of free stuff. Actually, someone always has to pay for that free stuff. Those who receive the free stuff do not realize that they will have to surrender some of their freedom when they do so. These types of controllers take advantage of people's ignorance of economics. These controllers know perfectly well that their economic system will consume wealth much faster than it creates it and eventually bankrupt it. Wholesale poverty will ensue. But they do not care. Through bribery, these controllers only seek to gain more control over more people. And once they gain that control, they will resort again to slavery and torture to maintain that control.