Thursday, February 23, 2012

A Questionable Freedom

One day I had thought of freedom and began to search through Google to find pictures of what people thought of freedom. I found a many sort that I adored, myself.

Here's one –
This one, I believe is strange, but a very interesting one. I look at it and what I see is more than just a chained person letting go of a butterfly. Actually, this is what I see. A little girl is chained at the wrists and though she believes some day she could be freed, she lets go of her one and comforting friend. A butterfly. Though the butterfly isn't really with her, it's a sort of hope. The butterfly is her freedom and as she continuously reaches for that butterfly, her hands hardly reaching, she realizes more that her freedom is in her reach. All she has to do is grab it.

This next one is simple, but great in a way.

If you can see the chains that are also in this one, though I've now noticed that the two chained ones are together, it looks to seem like a man just broke free from jail. I somehow see it as a man that was inadvertently put it jail for a crime and now, being freed from there, is as happy as a lamb. If you look closer to the background scene, you can also see a shadow of a person. Another way to look at this photograph is of a man that has died and has not only broken the chains from being through life and having the struggles that come with life, can now be happy in his afterlife.


This picture I love for the sake that it looks as though the picture was taken through a cathedral window and the person jumping has finally reached their wanted area. The sunset in the background make the up the simple silhouette for freedom symbol. It's a nice picture. 


It also reminds me of Africa in a way....



The picture above was made by a man screen named 'celsojunior' in Brazil on a website called deviantArt.  Here would be a link to show more of his work: http://celsojunior.deviantart.com/
But, either the course, he had made this picture and if you see from the left over, it looks like a traveler, then a man who, for some reason, has a hand up, and after is a hand who looks like a fan of a team that just won a game. Thenafter, shows another persona that looks like he wants to embrace the sunlight. Over past the tree shows a lonely looking boy who wants to be glad, but might not know what to be glad about. Then there's the father with the probably either three-day-old or newborn raising him up.

All in all, the top part with a lively tree is the freedom of the picture, while the bottom half is the captivity, liability and restrictions of life. That is why the bottom half has a withering tree there.


This picture scares me, even though it does make sense.

For the first statement, 'War is Peace', if there is war, the need for the war is always for peace for one of the sides. One side always is defending to either keep the standards on that of what's going on or to change it, but only slightly, and the other side always is being offensive to what ever their cause is and is always against what's happening. If neither sides where at an issue, then war would be no more. Although, the reason for war is because of everyone and their differences on what they'd like and what pleases them. In doing so, since it hardly seems possible for the places at war to ever succeed in what they'd like, considering of their differences, then wars will continuously go on. No place will be at peace when whatever the war is goes on.

The second statement says 'Freedom is Slavery'. It can bring up a strange controversy. Even though someone is free from one thing, they are still enslaved by another. For one, let's say someone decides on having a pet chihuahua, and they have to render on the responsibilities alongside themselves. Now, their slavery was the agony of want for this chihuahua, but now they are free of it. Their next new slavery is to bring a peaceful, nice, happy life for the dog. If and when you are free, you still bear some kind of slavery. No matter the case, life will always hand you a new slavery of a sort, wether it be in a school through work, in a business through work, or just at home working. That, give or take whenever the work should stop, is practically what our lives are made up of and enclosing with slavery. Deducing that we are all slaves. Wether it's taking up orders from someone else, or taking up your own orders (call it, self-discipline), you're still a slave of another's law. *Do remember that*

Lastly, 'Ignorance is Strength'. If your neighbor was to one day be ignorant and blame you for cutting down two trees on 'his' side, but it in a sense was on your side, you would have to be strong for it. That, however, is not what I think it's trying to tell. Ignorance is a horrid thing to have when confronting someone of doing something. If there is no ignorance, and you know what you're saying is fact, then you have more strength in doing so. Then, how in any way can ignorance become strength? Well, more people believe of their concerns and use them by twisting them in some way, shape or form so that they can defend themselves and destroy another, making them be the one of strength. When in a sense, they are actually the ones who are weak. Deciding on this, of course, would be to find out if what you say is of a true power. If not, you can still have strength, wether or not the offense is coming at you.

This entire picture is telling you about two different sides and how both sides have to face the same things. It's quite possible that you think any of these statements are true or that you think they make none of any sense, but remember of any actions where you were either at war (no matter if it was a big or small war), a slave (doing a task for another somewhat without free-will of your own kind), or simply ignorant on your own.

Now, the question that still pertains is how can freedom be a 'questionable' thing? Freedom, no  matter the cost, can always have a slavery. If you assume freeing yourself from a life of peril means doing things in certain quantities, then you might assume that that life of peril has not only just begun, it's been reborn. Freedom is a very flimsy thing however heavily or loosely you use it in a sentence. No matter what the freedom is, the most of it that matters is how to get this freedom of yours and/or what might possibly be your slavery that you could free yourself of, but only to be chained in a cell and locked up for until you figure how to escape. Then the cycle continues.


For the next post, I will post more 'Freedom' pictures. However, this post will be on top and the other, underneath.

-Bye!

1 comment:

  1. Amber - very good set of pictures and comments. Freedom has its price in that being free of everything means that you have little or no community with others since you are not responsible or obligated to any relationship. However, the key is to establish "selective slavery" whereby you are the one making the choice on what you are a slave to. By doing this you reach the point of "freedom of choice" while enslaving yourself in things (job, responsibility, etc.) that you enjoy.

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