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Robert H. Rimmer wrote a bunch of books to draw our
attention to disparities between our modern claims to personal freedom and
the real thing. Numerous self-serving organizations exist in modern
cultures to convince us that, as ignorant brutes, we cannot be depended on
to treat each other in a civil manner without hordes of watchdogs imposing
serious limitations on us. We have lived under this kind of regime for so
long, most of us have no idea that things could be any other way. In fact,
the majority will scoff at those who sometimes mention small things that
are missing from their lives, and dare to wonder aloud how they became so
perverted. That is the way Robert was treated by many in the publishing
industry.
What is perverted is
a fact, that most of our lives are lived out in unnatural ways, most of
our moral ideas are unnatural, and that most of our doctrinal ideals pit
us against nature in unnatural ways by causing us to think of it as dirty,
unfit, twisted, snarled, knotted, tangled, crude, raw and, with the other
fork of their tongues, would have us believe it is God's perfect creation.
What is amazing is that, in the midst of this kind of thinking, we stand
proud to be among the freest examples of mankind, thanks to the watchdogs
who care for our apathetic selves.
That we have retained
the freedom to express ourselves, allows those who choose the role of
watchdog in our cultures to perform that task, but not without risk to
themselves. The drumbeaters who seek control and domination feel no
compunctions about throwing muddy rocks and flames at them to make the
rest of us question their true intentions. Any small error they will make
gets jumped on by those whose very lives are lived erroneously, and
enlarged by magnification until the truth is hidden by their wile of
misdirections and rendered silent by their shrill misabnegations. My
recommendation: If you see someone slinging mud, befriend the target and
keep your eye on the accusers. Know them as your enemies.
While freedom of
expression has become one of our most often touted freedoms, and one of
those enumerated in the Bill of Rights, we must apply it only when we've
asked ourselves these questions: Do we truly know what it is that we wish
to express? If we think we do know that and answer 'Yes', are we truly
certain that what we wish to express is something that is in our own best
interests to say?— And, is the range of sources from which we draw our
information of the widest possible sort?—or do we choose to limit our
sources to those of a narrow selection and, doing so, avoid the
self-recriminations we'd make before we ever began our talks?
The right of
self-expression is important and, we must remember, it is what allowed all
those who created literature we'd rather not know about to have their say.
The right of self-expression, therefore, infers the duty to study those
and to make up—and change—our own minds about with what we'd agree and
disagree. Too many of us treat this and our other freedoms as something of
little value, and regard only those freedoms as important that have just
been taken away.
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