Episode-133- TSP Rewind – Do People Really Want Freedom
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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1928- Do People Really Want Freedom and was originally published on Jan. 10th 2017.
The following are the original show notes from that episode..
The word freedom has almost been risen to holy status in our society. You see people absolutely lose their minds if someone say burns a dime store flag that they personally paid for, because, “that flag symbolizes our freedom”, etc.

Most People Willing Put On Their Own Chains
Our nation is touted as “the freest nation in the world” and anyone
questioning the claim is shouted down and told nonsense like, “well then move to Somalia”. I am sorry but a person point out discrepancies and concerns about liberty is not told to just move to Somalia in a society that actually loves freedom.
In the end I don’t think the question is so easy to answer. On the surface, sure everyone yearns to be free, but do they really and how is freedom defined by those answering the question. We will examine this today and more.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- First let us acknowledge the places where we do tend to have more freedom
- Speech
- The Right to Bare Arms
- Ability to Build a Business
- To Practice or Abstain from Religion
- Now let us define freedom
- What is pure freedom
- How do most people actually internally define freedom
- Understanding the conflict
- What real freedom means
- You have no right to anything rightfully acquired by another person
- No one should ever take away anything from anyone against their will
- You are solely responsible for your own needs
- You have no right to interfere with others actions unless they harm another
- So do you really want freedom?
- Proof that most people do not want freedom
- HOAs
- Legislation of subjective morality
- The most tyranny happens at low levels of government
- Massive support for compulsory education
- Over reaction to every tragedy
- How people act when you say, “I am not going to vote”
- Violent defense of the system they claim to hate
- The absolute rejection of Ron Paul
- Final thoughts
Resources for today’s show…
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- The Year 1928
- Join Our Forum
- Walking To Freedom
- TspAZ.com – Support TSP When Shopping Online
- Mamma’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys – Waylon and Willie
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“Freedom” is understood by most people to be in the context of our biological life. But biological life is far from being “totally free!” We have to keep this conflict of contexts in mind when we think or talk about freedom.
Freedoms in biological societies are usually spoken of as “rights.” That’s because anyone can use force to kill your body. So all you can really demand is the right to not be killed. Amazingly, this is far from an acceptable freedom in many places on Earth. This has to do with the perceived power that is derived from the ability to take another’s life. This is the “power” of the insane.
“Victimless” crimes: These can range from irrational moral dictates to somewhat reasonable limitations on behavior that have been known to cause social problems. Drug use leading to addiction or intoxication is often seen as something worth preventing. Whether making it “illegal” is the best way to accomplish that is arguable. Didn’t really work for alcohol!
Social confusions about freedom arise from the ambiguities of biological life. It puts “costs” on things that only make sense in the context of biology. They don’t make sense in the context of thought. Why shouldn’t we be able to think and speak as we wish? We have the current hubbub about “hate speech.” But earlier in history it was a problem of power, of protecting the power held by irrational people for irrational reasons. That kind of insanity can always reappear among the “leaders” in society, no matter what principles it was built on. Thus, any level of freedom, or list of rights, must be constantly defended. And the only better solution is to eliminate insanity in ourselves and our leaders, thus making them (and us) into real leaders.
Sure there are lots of people who would prefer to be slaves (“consumers”). It is a “comfortable” and “secure” way to live. Many governments and corporations love it, as it makes you much more predictable and compliant. It’s a dead-end street, but most don’t even realize that. They think they only live once anyway. That’s the basic biological confusion!