He levys at ese that frely levys

People may wonder why I have this fetish with freedom. If I had to answer that I may have to indulge in what some highly intelligent people now call my mystical bullshit.

Why bore them with that once again, so I would try to find something else instead. You may not be satisfied with this explanation all the same. You may find any number of holes in it. Holes are not bad, there are even the black holes they say, where whatever shit happens does not really happen. It eats up the time, the black hole.

Any way I am glad I am not the only one who likes this strange concept, not the black hole eating up time, its likeable, but this other thing called freedom. Look how John Barbour (d. 1395) goes about it.


“A! Fredome is a noble thing!
Fredome mays man to haiff liking;
Fredome all solace to man giffis,
He levys at ese that frely levys!”

Mark how he cutely he hums that last line. “He levys at ese that frely levys!” That is what is important, living at ease, without burdens, without the gnawing doubt that someone has stealthily intruded into your mind and has usurped your very self. Those were the times of comparative ease, oh yes there was the church with it’s strangle hold on the intellect and mind. They were burning nice girls (both young and old) at the stake and drinking up all that Smoky fragrance. Yet slavery had not become a fashion then as it is now.

A person could yet say “ Freedome mays man to haiff liking” and be not black listed and put under surveillance. You say something on the line now; you would have visitors all of a sudden.

“Didn’t we see you at +++ yesterday? What was the name of that man ++++?

Nice, he is good, he is brilliant. We are great admirers.”

Of course there won’t be any man other than in their feverish imagination, and we call these imbeciles normal.

You would be no more alone then onwards, you would be reverently followed everywhere. You have suddenly become a national treasure. What the establishment can’t take is this free spirit in man. Whenever it sees that, it feels threatened like a girl about to be brutally raped. It becomes stupid and raises a great hue and cry.

Liberty is something to be had as Barbour says, a necessary pre-requisite for it is freedom. It’s not of liberalism that he was speaking of, that was totally against freedom, that was limiting freedom to pissing in public and having sex outdoors. To Barbour it was of something innate, something we feel all the time and is a part of our existence.

“Freedome all solace to man giffis” . How can we not agree? There have always been efforts to snub the free spirit of man. That’s what makes Shelly say “I am a devoted enemy to religious, political, and domestic oppression” Shelly was all heart and feeling.

I can only echo his words:

“Shout aloud! Let every slave,
Crouching at Corruption's throne,
Start into a man”
(TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA.)

I think it’s stupid to discuss freedom from the stand point of the intellect, intellect cannot live without being entangled, it’s a slave to structure, it can’t get out of its subservience . So Let us discard the intellect and embrace emotions. Why do we feel that we are free internally? Do you think that it’s an aberration, a falsification of the true state of things? Why do the little children do what they like and not what we tell them to do. Where from comes this rebellious spirit.

I believe that this comes from the deepest core of our being. You can be an emergentist and still believe in this. If matter is evolving into higher forms one higher form could be this being that is free in mind, who can spread his mental wings and take off to any place in the universe. You might disprove me with your mathematical tables and complicated thought structures. You might even patronizingly say that, buddy, it’s so, we agree with you, to be done with me.

But this belief of mine is primary; I just can’t live without it. If I have to think that I am a remote controlled thingamabob I had rather end it all and be finished with that slavery once and for all. I can’t be internally controlled. I can’t be mentally manipulated. I assert my mental freedom; I would like to think the vilest thoughts on the greatest of people and the greatest thought on the vilest people in the world. I believe that is my sovereign right.

More about it later….