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Sounds like freedom to me!
As opposed to
"Queue for a possible job, wonder if
the kids will ever have an education, wish
you could afford some footwear, act as if
your every word is being monitored, try to
catch some news from anything but the state
media, worry you'll never make old age, fear
anarchic violence.
Repeat after me: I am free"
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Seen in my contacts' photos. (?)
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Thanks Sam. And this one too. www.flickr.com/photos/knautia/427385894/
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An addition if I may add to the US
version....
"go to work, PAY INTEREST, send your
kids to school, PAY INTEREST,
follow fashion, PAY INTEREST, act normal,
PAY INTEREST,
walk on the pavement, PAY INTEREST, watch
TV, PAY INTEREST,
save for your old age, PAY INTEREST, obey
the law, PAY INTEREST,
Repeat after me, I am dead and now my loved
ones will PAY INTEREST."
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These viewpoints are not mutually exclusive.
This is just one person ridiculing the free
choice of another.
All of us ought to consider the pleasures
of living our own lives without trying to be
the pastor for someone with a different idea.
That's freedom.
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lammmmme! Next time just spray-paint "I
LACK PERSPECTIVE"
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agree with Mance 100%.
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Exactly! I agree with Mance..however who said
that is the only other option?
What about:
Work as every human being, send your kids
to school or educate them at home if you
want, follow fashion only if it conforms to
your beliefs, act your definition of
"normal" not others definition,
dont watch TV because you know its just crap,
have your family happily support you in your
old age, and obey the law only if it justice.
That is freedom.
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I can see that some of you didn't get the
pic.
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Words, Palabras, Mots..., and we'd love to have this added to the
group!
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I think the point of this graffiti is: if
freedom within my culture does exist wouldn't
the people who had a whole world of unique
possibilities take them?
The sad answer is an obvious no. We don't.
We burrow into the corner of our cages and
wish to adventure via proxy.
Great photo!
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I've seen the little trendy, well dressed
white kids in San Francisco spewing this same
type of pablum onto the walls of mostly
small businesses and homes and public
transit. Trustafundians we call them. How do
they really rebel? By not talking to their
parents except when they need cash to buy pot
or meth. Or post bail.
Graffiti: the most impotent for of
rebellion.
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True true.
Now all of you get back to work! (*crack of
whip)
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yes, we are free. but, i think the purpose of
this message is to get people to realize that
society can imprison our freedom of thought.
he's talking about freedom of
consciousness--not action.
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MANce is the MAN
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... right up until you need the assistance of
the State.
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nice remark Mance, but i think we miss the
point here in that most people (almost saying
All) dont live their lives to the utmost.
its just repetition.
So, lets try more than just 2 perspectives
here.
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Let's just say you're young and foolish and
you don't really want a home in the suburbs,
you don't want a 60" plasma, you don't
want a Volvo, and your idea of 'making a
difference' isn't flipping real estate. Gawd
help ya.
The almighty buck guides almost everything
the developed world's youth are directed to
pursue. 'Reality' tells you that your life
*should* turn into an episode of Survivor,
clawing, lying and conniving your way to a
larger net worth.
Save whales? Protect nature? Play your
guitar? Read to old ladies? Walk dogs?
Write poetry? Far from noble pursuits.
Apart from death, there are no
inevitabilities.
Rage against the machine. Rock the boat.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
(far, FAR too many cute little quotes in
here) :)
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So why did I do it? I could offer a million
answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a
bad person, but that's going to change, I'm
going to change. This is the last of this
sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving
on, going straight and choosing life. I'm
looking forward to it already. I'm going to
be just like you: the job, the family, the
fucking big television, the washing machine,
the car, the compact disc and electrical tin
opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental
insurance, mortgage, starter home,
leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY,
game shows, junk food, children, walks in the
park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the
car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas,
indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the
gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the
day you die.
-Trainspotting
Er, that's what it reminds me of. Love this
picture though.
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Everyone makes fun of the "consumer
life" but no one has a better idea.
"Rage against the machine?" who
cares. Just don't do it in my neighborhood.
"Live life to the utmost?" Just
how does one do that? Even high-risk stuff
gets tiresome after awhile.
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Sounds like a bunch of uptight old fuckers
who're bitter because this described them too
well. I kid, I kid!
Some of us are young and angry, and don't
want what that sort of life (not yet,
anyway). At least this person did something
that might make people think, some kids would
just smash your windows or set shit on fire.
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aneeley212 says:
yes, we are free. but, i think the purpose
of this message is to get people to realize
that society can imprison our freedom of
thought. he's talking about freedom of
consciousness--not action.
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agreed... i think that it's pointing out
how everything is normalized in society, with
the existing belief system and values having
moved into the realm of "common
sense"... personally i think it's the
media that perpetuates this as it is through
media that such ways of life are perpetuated.
but then again, theres a limit as to how much
we can question notions of freedom since
there has got to be some kinda social order.
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Hi Paul, spotted you on Reddit when I
mouseovered this:
I Am Free. [pic] [pics] (flickr.com)
123 points posted 9 hours ago by ARS_ 178
comments
Nice pic but I don't care much for the
sentiment. It's cartoon thinking that divides
the world into supposedly-mindless-drones and
'snapped out of the matrix'
counterculturalists.I'm with the 'Rebel Sell'
book on this - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Sell - too much of this style of thinking is as
fashion-driven and capitalistic as it comes.
Just dressed up in a different style.
www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2002/11/rebelsell.
php
"""What we see in films like
American Beauty and Fight Club is not
actually a critique of consumerism; it’s
merely a restatement of the “critique of mass
society” that has been around since the
1950s. The two are not the same. In fact, the
critique of mass society has been one of the
most powerful forces driving consumerism for
more than 40 years. """
(I'd disagree re Fight Club being same film
as American Beauty; I found it smarter but
maybe I'm reading too much between the
lines...)
The scribbles also owe something to en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Trainspotting#Renton
"""Choose life. Choose a
job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose
a fucking big television, Choose washing
machines, cars, compact disc players, and
electrical tin openers. Choose good health,
low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose
fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a
starter home. Choose your friends. Choose
leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a
three piece suite on hire purchase in a range
of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering
who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching
mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows,
stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all,
pissing your last in a miserable home,
nothing more than an embarrassment to the
selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to
replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose
life . . . But why would I want to do a thing
like that? I chose not to choose life: I
chose something else. And the reasons? There
are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've
got heroin?"""
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yeah! i am free..
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Nice one there - we are so overmeta.
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i think it is THE tragedy o our times that
that is an idealistic lifestyle
it isunfathomable that we are all subject
to such a life ideal and anyone who doesn't
follow these rules or don't fit into our
tight little circles operating in suburban
white middle class. we pretend that nothing
else happens and we are happy, fulfilled when
living a lifestyle where we control as much
as possible isnt living, it is being safe and
until we all learn once again what it is to
let go and actually go for it,not worry about
what people will think, just find their
passion and go for it
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Mance doesn't aim very high...
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"Wake up, watch the sun rise, milk the
cow(s) gather the eggs, weed the garden. I am
free!"
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"There is a level of cowardice lower
than that of the conformist: the fashionable
non-conformist." - Ayn Rand
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The elite's government FEARS you!!!!!!
Their fear is manifested in the laws they
pass. Here is a law banning what MANY of the
Founders wrote is a RIGHT of citizens when a
government no longer represents them:
Section 2385. Advocating overthrow of
Government
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates,
abets, advises, or
teaches the duty, necessity, desirability,
or propriety of
overthrowing or destroying the government
of the United States or
the government of any State, Territory,
District or Possession
thereof, or the government of any political
subdivision therein, by
force or violence, or by the assassination
of any officer of any
such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow
or destruction of any
such government, prints, publishes, edits,
issues, circulates,
sells, distributes, or publicly displays
any written or printed
matter advocating, advising, or teaching
the duty, necessity,
desirability, or propriety of overthrowing
or destroying any
government in the United States by force or
violence, or attempts
to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to
organize any society,
group, or assembly of persons who teach,
advocate, or encourage the
overthrow or destruction of any such
government by force or
violence; or becomes or is a member of, or
affiliates with, any
such society, group, or assembly of
persons, knowing the purposes
thereof -
Shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than
twenty years, or both, and shall be
ineligible for employment by
the United States or any department or
agency thereof, for the five
years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit
any offense named in
this section, each shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned
not more than twenty years, or both, and
shall be ineligible for
employment by the United States or any
department or agency
thereof, for the five years next following
his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms
''organizes'' and
''organize'', with respect to any society,
group, or assembly of
persons, include the recruiting of new
members, the forming of new
units, and the regrouping or expansion of
existing clubs, classes,
and other units of such society, group, or
assembly of persons.
The federal government is allowing MILLIONS
of illegals to invade our country who are
causing immense economic harm to America's
working poor. Corporate America is becoming
increasingly more powerful and influential.
Yet, according to the government of for and
by the elites YOU, a citizen, have to accept
whatever the government does with NO recourse
other than voting...... and there is
sufficient proof that shows to me voting is
worthless since the entrenched power
structure ensures that the emplaced elite
class can not be removed.
Several Founders specifically wrote of the
people's right to abolish a government when
it no longer represents them.
We are forced to live under an elite's
TYRANNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i think quadaudio missed the part where it
says "by force or violence". there
are ways of going about overthrowing a
government without the expressed use of force
or violence, but that would require
300million or so people becoming united as
one voice and peacefully redressing our
grievances. Not just inder one voice that
leads us into a predictable chaotic riot of
ignorant behavior. and since we all know, as
well as our government knows, that will never
happen... they will continue to control us
as they please.
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The best example of "freeedom"
within the context of the above
is a middle aged homeless man with 20 bucks
in his pocket.
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or..
"be different" and get a macbook
or ipod.... along with everyone else.
the act of nonconformity is conformity in
itself..
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That actually doesn't sound to bad, do you
know how much effort it is to make a change?
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I completely agree with Mance's perspective.
Many people would sacrifice anything to
have our version of a "normal"
life.
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Fulfill a dream. It is clear that the
graffiti artist has no goals. Or if the
artist does have goals, he is trapped in the
life he lives unable to figure out how to get
himself out of his "rat race".
Hopefully the artist had the goal of
"putting graffiti on a wall"
because he certainly accomplished that.
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Freedom is not something most people are born
with. like most other things in life,
freedom must be earned, not only as a society
but also as individuals. This is why I work,
I am willingly giving up my freedom for a
certain amount of time in order to achieve a
greater amount of freedom later. Or so I
tell myself.
Also @HeroicLife
You mean people who read Ayn Rand?
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@ mance
just because someone else has it worse
doesn't make it right.
i could go off into a giant libertarian
rant here, but ill spare everyone the bore.
people just like restriction.
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Wow man, that's like, totally deep.
"Graffiti on public walls, get the
taxpayer to remove it, don't get a job, get
the taxpayer to pay for you,
repeat after me: i'm "free"
"
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@Mance: You're confusing "freedom"
with "security" - The two are not
at all related.
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I don't think a lot of people are getting
this. It's not an attack on the idea that we
have freedom in America, it's an attack on
the methods in which the people that live
here USE that freedom. Everyone is free to do
what they want and make their own way, yet
most people take the exact. same. path.
At least that's how I took it.
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What's freedom?
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No offense Mance, but the list you made?
With the exception of the last item, that's
pretty much where we are in the States right
now. Obviously there are people who have it
worse, and even now I'm sure there are plenty
who would love to be where we are right now,
that doesn't make what the people in charge
are doing to this country OK.
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Wow Paul - a lot of new friends dropped by!
No where did I say what my aim was. Or that
these things are the limit of our
aspirations. My critique was, as
put it - comparing our relative security
with the lack of it offered in less stable
regimes and economies. I believe Maslow had
it right when he suggested that
Self-actualisation (which requires freedom?)
is one of the last high order needs that come
only when we have security and shelter.
Doesn't make what right? The statements in
the photo to me suggest conformity, not
repression. Of course we should rage against
unjust laws, illegal wars and vacuous
consumption, but don't forget the
freedoms/security our inadequate society does
offer us. And yes - be different. Why not!
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Can't speak for the US of A - (this photo
was taken in the 51st State - UK)
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Freedom is a myth ....
Its the same reason we look at security
cameras and ask "Why is that camera
there?" and get the same reply "For
freedom" ...
The human race wont last much longer, good
riddance.
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The graffiti was an intelligent remark about
the conscience of the average life of most
people's lives, who definitely well defined
as stuck and un-'free' as in the statement.
A straight forward comparison to the
totally opposite & worst side of the
scenario, using the least intelligent form of
cynics, the irony factor i.e 'get a job' as
opposed to 'wait in line for jobs' is just
silly.
For most people who filters opinion such as
this one and digested only the meaningful
part of it, instead of blasting a
straight-forward critique as an act of
supposedly intelligence, i'd like to just
personally think that he moderately meant i.e
'get a job you love'.
Graffiti makes people read & think
-legal or not.
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This follows the same theme as Fight Club:
"God damn it, an entire generation
pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with
white collars. Advertising has us chasing
cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we
can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle
children of history, man. No purpose or
place. We have no Great War. No Great
Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual
war... our Great Depression is our lives.
We've all been raised on television to
believe that one day we'd all be
millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars.
But we won't. And we're slowly learning that
fact."
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What strikes me as odd is the 'artist' who is
so obviously against consumerism still lives
in the city. Free?
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I just finished an assignment and then beat
off to some porn. I am free!
Until no one owns anything and we are on
this land (earth) with what god gave us and
allowed to do whatever we want to do we are
not free.
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Freedom is a perspective to most.
Do you live in the dangerous world out side
the cage or do you prefer the safety the
cage provides?
I think like most things it is all about
balance. Maybe one is better than the other
who knows, but it is sure fun to think about.
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Methinks Mance doth protest too much. Way
too much.
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Everyone is free to do or not to do any of
the stuff on that list, as long as they're
willing to accept the consequences of their
actions. But these things don't exist in a
vacuum - while you are theoretically free to
punch me in the mouth, I'm equally entitled
not to be punched, which is why we have laws
against assault. Working for money allows
freedom to travel and purchase things, for
example, while disobeying the law will result
in penalties.
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This is life..
face it.
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I'm not going to state my personal opinion
here because it's been covered several times
in different ways. I just wanted to say this
is a favorite of mine simply because of the
social commentary it has created. I'm glad
to see people openly disagreeing and agreeing
about what's being said. WE HAVE TO KEEP
DOING THAT.
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I am free - I've switched to Ubuntu Linux
open-source OS and software!
Seriously though, isn't the pursuit of
freedom as an ideal meaningless? It seems to
me to be like having a desire to float freely
- in a vacuum...
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...and try to get into outer space before we
become extinct. Its natural to want to live
forever. Forever free.
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What if i love doing those things, nothing
wrong with that!!!!!!!!!!!
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While I understand the concept of freedom- I
don't truly understand what it is to be free.
Artistic Idea Generation
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sad but true. This is the way of our
existence, it's what modern society call
freedom
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Well congrats, you have been Dugg!
digg.com/arts_culture/I_Am_Free
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I agree with the artist 100%. I just ask
him/her to please not write it on the side of
my house. Thanks in advance.
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You are perfectly free to be unemployed,
running on the street with scissors with
your eyes shut while your kids are wandering
the streets. Don't be surprised if your run
over by a car and your kids are given to
foster care. You are free to choose to fit
in a society or not.
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What about video games
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The elites of every country tend to do well
unless they are deposed or lose a war with
another group of elites but even then the
losing elite(s) will often continue living an
opulent life style.
Hey!!!! The elite class of every
country/religion/cult/any type of social
organization lives well and works less by
skimming from the labors of the common
classes.
That is what Marx and Engels tried to tell
us!!!!
Those two should have stopped there rather
than trying to concoct a cure for those
burdensome elites.
Maybe elite classes are inevitable.
It's just a shame elites are so ready to
brainwash, then up to murdering masses of
common folks so as to enable them to maintain
the status quo that is so beneficial to the
elites.
I admit that some groups of elites are
kinder than others.
Sure can't compare American elites with the
acts of Idi Amin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot,
etc. etc. etc.
But, the USA's elite class HAS murdered
common Americans to maintain the status quo.
Just look in the history books. Even women
and children have died at the hands of
jack-booted thugs, representatives of the
elite class, to ensure that wealth and power
remained in the hands of the elites.
Please, my fellow citizens. All I wish is
that you attempt to cast off the years of
indoctrination, the brainwashing all of us
undergo to convince us that the way things
are is correct, proper... as it should be.
From schooling to the mass media to general
culture...we are constantly bombarded that
the present status quo is the only RIGHT way
to handle things.
Educate yourselves!!! Don't let the
self-centered greedy elite class do your
thinking for you.
Don't let the Rush Limbaugh's of the world
implant their propaganda. Those folks are
merely shills for the elite class!!!
I remain convinced that the greatest threat
to our freedoms is our own elite class; more
of a threat than all foreign terrorists
combined.
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"go to work (make others money), send your kids to school (and wonder if they will ever learn)
follow fashion (only on TV), act normal (pretend to act normal)
walk on the pavements (the gas cost is high ), watch T.V. (local channels only)
save for your old age (don't eat), obey the law (puppet show)
Repeat after me: I am free"
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"elite class"!
Hilarious. What if you found your own
success? Then what? Evil comes in all forms,
rich AND poor. Try taking in some of the
education you speak of. If you did, you'd
know an argument is nothing without some sort
of qualifying remark. Nice buzzword, by the
way.
The original photo is ridiculous. Those are
choices not forced upon anyone. I live my
life as I imagined I would as a kid through
hard work and self-education. I live as I
want to, every day. Yes that is freedom.
It is sad that the kid on windmill hill
hasn't found any calling in life other than
to whine with paint on another's property.
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I get that the person who painted the
graffiti thinks that these things are a sign
of people with freedom choosing not to
exercise that freedom, but I think the artist
is missing a critical point: maybe so many
people choose the same thing because it makes
sense.
"go to work"... The alternative
is to do all your gathering and construction
of things for yourself. The trade of goods
and services is a pretty basic part of
society and lets people like you and me do
one job (hopefully something we really enjoy)
but still get the food we need and the
shelter we need because someone else has made
it their job to provide those.
"send your kids to school" ... I
value my education. I'm glad my mom sent her
kids to school.
I could continue on, but the point should
be obvious. There are inevitably those things
that will have greater value. If there is
anything about us that unites us--anything at
all that makes us human beings and not just
completely disparate entities--then
inevitably there will be common ways in which
the value of things sorts itself out to us.
To suggest that freedom requires specifically
not doing what other people are doing is to
really advocate for a valueless world. And if
you've ever felt the pain of hunger, sadness
over someone lost, or the chill of a cold
night, you know that there are things common
to us as human beings that have value.
The last point worth making is that
ultimately the only real freedom is that
which comes from within and allows you to
make your choices without fear that your
choice will somehow make you less free to
make your next choice. We carry forth no
action without a choice on our parts, no
matter how stacked the odds. It is always a
choice. We are all "free."
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The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
said, as Einstein paraphrased it, that “a
human can very well do what he wants, but
cannot will what he wants.”
www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/science/02free.htm
l?ei=5090&am...
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p.s. Though I DO like the photo. The font
that the person has written in is some how
lyrical and the placement of the text against
the non-intentionally occurring color field
of light blue on white on what I presume to
be a billboard, draws in the eye. Yes, top
marks for aesthetic charm!
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of course your free.
I really do not get all this rubbish when
people knock England, they are not after
freedom, but after a free ride. You do not
have to go to work, watch TV have kids or
follow fashion?! You can instead do what ever
you like and try to make a living off it. You
will likely fail and be as wealthy as people
in the 3rd world trying the same thing, so
instead of moaning realise the great
opportunity your given if you "play the
game" in this country.
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yawn - "Work, Buy, Consume, Die"
used far fewer words and had more impact than
this piece of dull, cliched, "heard it
all before" pseudo-rebel clap trap.
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enjoyed the read... I love that we can
discuss freedom, I just listened to a podcast
from the bbc about a 13 yr old nun who just
uttered the words "free Tibet" and
spent over 20 yrs in prison being tortured...
I value my freedom of speech although I know
we do not live in a utopian country - I don't
think anyone is that naive. There is always
something to fight for and change. Agreed
with Mance and CyberSteel - nicely put.
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Cool!
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called One Hundred Thousand Club (100,000
Photostream Views), and we'd love to have this added to the
group!
...and please feel free to join the group
and add some of you best or favourite shots.
Thanx.
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I saw this, really made me stop in my tracks,
i like seeing graffiti that is actully
different :)
quite alot of banksy (cant spell :S) work
in bristol :)
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Great stuff! Reminds me of Banksy. seo
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Well.. At least you are free enough to write
this, but of course not on someone else's
building!! We do all live in freedom. Just be
glad you aren't in China!
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@ mance
i dont mean one specific thing or something
from this. i just mean anything. i agree with
your points though.
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Didn't really read all the comments, as I've
read it all before. But did any of you jaded
cynics, naive wannabees or newborn rebels
consider that all the artist and/or
photographer wished for was to get people
thinking and talking?
If that is the case, mission accomplished,
wouldn't you say?
-zsh
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one of the best i've ever read
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Neat photo and good commentary.
I think a lot of people and quite possibly
the artist are confusing freedom with a
desire.
Certainly, everyone in Western society is
free to wake up in the morning and decide
that they are going to be a subsistence
farmer. Almost no one does.
So the lament often labeled as a lack of
freedom, really isn't. I think it's more of
a feeling of I'm not getting my due in self
expression/attention --aka, hey I'm
special!!--. This frustration manifests and
gets labeled as a lack of freedom. "The
reason why I don't feel special, is because I
lack freedom!"
I think that most if not all humans are
inherently lazy.. as in people will try and
take the easiest path to their goal. If your
goal is to feel special, the easiest way to
that end is to purchase something that will
denote how special you are to everyone else.
The only snag is that everyone else is doing
that.
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I tried to stick it to the man in my own
small way by not walking on the pavement.
I am now writing this from hospital in
traction. Cheers mate.
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get a load of all the pretentious bullshit
commentry on this one picture of someone's
stupid little graffiti slogan. whoop de doo.
freedomlolz.
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"act as if your every word is being
monitored, try to catch some news from
anything but the state media"
Am I the only one to whom these two phrases
leave a bitter aftertaste?
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"Repeat after me ... I am free"
incidentally happens to be a David Icke quote, from the time well after he went
completely nuts.
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could be worse... could be raining.... -Igor
"Young Frankenstein"
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