Today, I wake up a little bit early compare that I used to be on my holiday. Its pretty easy to guess...yeah..tujuh belasan.
I heard in the radio who tried to compile the meaning of 17-an from Indonesian people. By average, they said, it was our independence day and it means its competition time, party time, panjat pinang, lomba karung...I am stunning and thinking....I just don't believe it, is that all!!.
But frankly speaking that was also in my head if someone asked me what do you think about August 17 and what will you do ?
Freedom...its about freedom. But are we enjoying a freedom today?
Simple answer ....Yes!! we have a freedom to choose our own life, our own president with our new system of democracy. People tend to think that the democracy is a freedom, But do you know what is the freedom it self???
I am searching in the web, and look what I find..
"[M]an is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."- Ronald Reagan
George Orwell wrote about "meaningless words" that are endlessly repeated in the political arena. Words like "freedom," "democracy," and "justice," Orwell explained, have been abused so long that their original meanings have been eviscerated. In Orwell's view, political words are "often used in a consciously dishonest way." Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom.
Please check out this page : http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=4737
It is an interesting page to read...
Enjoy friend!!!. Hope we know now that democracy its not all about we know so far... at least for me.
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