Tag: freedom

freedom is always a question

05.10.2026

Freedom is always a question. Am I free? What is freedom? How can I be free?

Yet how many of us ask this question? The West likes to trumpet how it is ‘free’. That it has a ‘free’ market and that is it’s greatest strength. This is an empty boast. Our lives are locked into this capitalistic and exploitative financial structure. Every decision has to be made based on getting money in this economy. Conformity reigns. As Rousseau observed, we are born free but everywhere we look we are in chains. As Blake said, the mind-forged manacles permeate society.

How then, can one become free? How then can one become the Revolutionary?

Action is curtailed and controlled. Thought is curtailed and controlled. There is a system of order that dominates and oppresses. Where is the seed of resistance? Where is the spark of the fire?

Is it in criticism of all that there is? Is it in independent thought outside of the institutions? But then, how free are we when all we can do is to react against what is? There is no way out of what is. It is determinative of everything. But if we did not believe in criticism, if we did not believe in campaigning against exploitation, hate and injustice, if we accepted our loss of freedom, what would we become?

We would become those who not only tolerate but thrive in replicating this system, that live as slaves within this system and that only accept others that are slaves. Freedom consists in this: the assertion that I am not a slave. Perhaps the real question of freedom is ‘Am I a slave? Or am I a man?’

So, to be free, one must criticise. One must attempt to do things differently. In thought and action, one must appreciate and value difference from what is. There is another world, a world of freedom. Every religious figure and activist has tried to bring this other world of freedom to life. But then, what do the people do? They attempt to make this world of freedom into a world of oppression and tyranny, a world of the lack of freedom.

The woke generation, they attempt to force their views on others, just like the conformists who rail against the woke generation, those conformists who created their own unfreedom. They have created the cancel culture. It shows you that people seek out unfreedom, not freedom.

Every morning, every day, every night, the scholar in the war ponders on how unfree he is. And he ponders upon a world of freedom. Is it possible? Can we all be free? And is this freedom to be found in the dreams of India and the Independence movement? The answer to exploitation, racism and capitalism? What would a truly free man look like? Is he possible in this world?

the slave (microfiction)

09.11.2025

S: The idea of the slave is what gives us the sense of freedom.

A: How so?

S: We, who are the Revolution, we would do anything so that we do not become the slave. We fight so that we do not become the slave. We who are from the Dalits, ‘The Oppressed’, the low castes, we will no longer be slaves.

A: What is the slave? What are you talking about?

S: The slave is the victim of power and oppression. The slave is governed by the powerful and lives according to the caprices of the powerful. The slave has no independent thoughts or life. The slave models their living on the dictates and wants of the powerful. The slave loves the powerful, is fucked by the powerful. The slave has been raped and seduced by evil. The slave fawns on the powerful. The slave has no integrity. The slave only loves oppressive power and wants to be oppressive power. The slave is weak willed. The slave is the slave to the Other.

A: And freedom?

S: Freedom is freedom from slavery. One who is free governs himself. He lives according to his own desires, his own culture. The rules he accepts, the dharma, his own law. He is the law maker. From his own culture. He decides what he thinks is right himself. Not what someone else is trying to force him to think is right. The free does not want to become oppressive power. He does not listen to the powerful. He is his own man. He lives like a king. The free man hates the powerful. Because their power is based on greed and exploitation, injustice and lies. He is not fucked by the powerful. He is not raped and seduced by the powerful. He is mind. He attacks the powerful. Because the one without power is the most powerful. The one without power is the most free. The free man hates oppressive power and wants to be anything but oppressive power. The free man loves love and justice. The free man is not weak willed. He does not bow down to anyone. He holds his head high. The free man is not the Other. He is himself, authentic. The free man is the Revolution.

A: Who is this free man?

S: You are looking at him. The free man is The Tiger. Across thousands of years, the figure of The Tiger has stood against the imposition of unjust external rule in India. And now, The Tiger stands in every country of the world. The Tiger is self respect, value for his culture, just pride, goodness, dharma (the law), authenticity. It is not a name. It is everything.