Who's in control of you, if not you?

Everyone of us is responsible for what we do and we are challenged by the law (leaders, our parental structure or law enforcement), or psychologists, if we don't have a clue what we're doing. Then the system of rules in our state or country takes over from our system or method of doing things, and suddenly we are not in control of our lives anymore. It is assumed that as long as we are in a free country with a "democracy" or style of it, then we are responsible for ourselves and our behaviors demonstrate this state of being. 

We are human beings that love our freedom, but there is just one thing to note, as long as we are flesh and blood, we will never be fully in control of ourselves. Whatever created us and everything that surrounds us in sight and out of sight, he is what is responsible for whom we are and he is in full control of our existence and the human existence. We only put up resistance to this acknowledgement, but it does not matter because we know this when we age and approach death, not when we are underage unless we are taught to believe in what we have not seen and we have faith that it is so. 

But when are we truly free in our society when the word democracy does not mean free? It's a system of government with its own set of rules that still control our lives but when we live it, we see it has its limitations but we accept it with deep criticism, and when we are not in it, we see it has its accreditations and recognition by others who crave the ability to have elements of a particular kind of freedom that they do not have. We wish it to be so but every society has rules that will inhibit our freedom, and we look to a model of system that displays what we truly want to be but will never be in society. 

We are never free in any system of democracy but even more so, we are never completely free in any society. Rules always provide boundaries that we cannot cross, and some of us do try to defy these rules and are taught that rules have no tolerance for the exception, though society through generational changes will allow for the abatement of these old rules in return for new ones. We take things as they come.

Our appreciation of our situation is borne out of globalization and what most of us now observe is happening in other nations. We then realize that things are not so bad where we are so we change our disposition and appreciate the composition of laws we have in our society but we really seek to change the things in our existence that are in resistance to the freedom we believe we should have. We will never completely be free in any society but when we see that people admire the things in our country, or city that make us more free than they could be, in their democracy, we realize that we should appreciate what we already have and try to make it better for ourselves, as they try to make things better for themselves. A style of democracy is really defined by a system of values, cultures and beliefs that allow for the freedoms its people can accept and tolerate and there is no debate about people making the choice to allow or disallow those things that impinge on their values and norms. 

We seek to break down barriers, and this is encouraged, but it comes with a generational shift at times even though we want to push for the change sooner. Acceptance of new democratic norms must be universal, or almost so, within any society so that change can come and exist in any country, society or kingdom, and not create jeopardy for its leadership or rulership. This is how true democratic change can be sustained. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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 " All our observations that bring the wise to the fore, and wisdom into fruition have been fraught with criminal and sinister submissions, so we now are replete with unwise murmurings and thoughts of cruel things. Why do we persist with these things that make us fail to exist? It is wisdom that brings us a profitable and protracted life span through our dealings that have a careful and methodical submission. We should be proud of this, but we are too proud to recognize it. We are proud of our arrogance and our pride fails us. We should become educators in the end, but what we lack in wisdom leaves us uneducated and unprepared for a formidable situation when our enemy's plots and wise words can reveal his understanding and mercy." Taken from "The Beauty of Contemplation, A Philosophical and Poetic Journey," by Russell Tulloch.