Let’s be free
Freedom is a state of non-dependence. A person with needs depends on them and therefore cannot be entirely free. In a narrower case, freedom is a state that allows us to satisfy our needs.
A person has subjective and objective needs. Objective needs are natural needs. People may satisfy them pretty much successfully and thus find their freedom. The troubles of today’s society stem from subjective or unfulfilled needs because people cannot satisfy them. Generally speaking, subjective needs can make people feel they are overcoming their natural weaknesses and freeing themselves from the inconveniences that arise from them. But of course, that release is false.
How does it manifest? Whenever people accomplish any goal in their lives, the narcissus in them assigns to that success, and of course to their egos, a more significant value than it objectively deserves. This phenomenon may seem unimportant, but in essence, it is the nest of all social evil. All social evils around the world stem from over-self-evaluation because it inevitably leads to underestimating other people. Wrongly evaluating people alienates them from their true nature and creates an environment for social trouble.
When a person’s needs are alienated, they tend not to be satisfied because no action can reach the origin of those needs. No action can give a person more power than they inherently possess. Such a person fears losing imagined, alienated power, and it forces him to act endlessly to protect his false vision. Because they cannot find satisfaction this way, such acting takes away their freedom, while endless, useless action kills the soul. A person without a soul is just a machine that walks and produces trouble.
On top of everything, such a person tends to impose alienating values and oppress others, taking freedom from them and bringing considerable problems to society as a whole. Presidents, scientists, soccer players, and mothers do such things; practically no one is immune to self-over-evaluation, and no one is immune to narcissism. That is a problem we need to solve.
Regardless of what goal a person accomplishes, they must not forget, for their own sake and for the sake of society as a whole, that they are equal to any other person. This is precisely what the system of mutual evaluation among the people I have proposed will consistently remind each person of. This is the first step to freedom.
Also, the system I have proposed will free people from authoritative pressure and let them follow their own interests. Such experience will demystify the values imposed by authorities and teach people to live by observing their true nature, which will, in turn, free them from all types of alienation characteristic of present-day society.
The new system I have proposed gives people objective freedom. They will have choices everywhere. The people will have the right to choose whether they want to work and what kind of work they want to do. Their existence will no longer depend on work, but they will choose to work because they enjoy the new system.
Such a life will be free. It will be significantly better than the life we live today, a life that surpasses anyone’s imagination.