Man's Natural Condition is Freedom

Originally posted June 2016.

REFLECTION ON THE MOVIE THE FREE STATE OF JONES

Man's natural condition is freedom and to fight tyranny and oppression. Unless man is otherwise conditioned to be complacent and accept a state of slavery and even to the point, as Newton Knight put it that, "Everybody is just somebody else's nigger."

As a student of multiculturalism, philosophy, and religion, I have come to the conclusions that mankind chooses over and over again to be stupid. We have made up these rules over the centuries of who is better, who is worthy of the mantel of humanity, and who gets to reap the benefits.

No man is a slave except by choice. I have studied countless individuals that even in states of servitude and slavery, they are more free than those without chains. There are the blind that have more sight than those with seeing eyes.

War is more than guns, guts, and glory. The wars begin when the weapons are laid down, even generations hence. Blood must be shed for freedom's sake. The problem becomes when we forget how and why blood has been shed for our sake, when we become complacent, and we choose to be shackled by landowners once again.

May we never forget that the price for freedom's sake is never free.

~Michael DeNobile

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