Jeremy Boreing

It gives you the ability to be hurt, which is why we fear it.

People don't love freedom.

You know, in the early days of the 2000s, there was this like the heart of man yearns for freedom, sort of George Bush view of human anthropology.

And I think that he's right in one sense, which is

There is a part of the heart of man that longs for freedom, but that part is almost always subordinate to the part that says, would that we were slaves again in Egypt, which is what the Israelites actually said when they were led out of slavery.

Yet every moment of hardship, they wish that they were slaves again because slaves have security.

When you're a slave, you know where your next meal is going to come from.

You know what you have to do in order to get.

And freedom says you don't always know what to do in order to get.

You don't have that direct cause and effect always in motion.

You don't always know the right outcome.

You don't always know the right decision.

You just have to act.

And that's terrifying.

Freedom is the most terrifying state that a human can find themselves in.

And yet, because you're free, because you have freedom to try and you have freedom to fail at a level that no humans in the history of the world have ever had, you have an obligation to try and an obligation to fail.

You have an obligation to put one foot in front of the other, even when you don't know, to reach out and feel your way forward through the mist, reaching for something transcendent and something better.

If we sit here bitching about the government, if we sit here bitching about how things haven't gone our way for 40 years in this culture, what have we conserved?

I want to tear things down.

I'm mad.