On the Discourse Between Determinism & Free Will

Freedom-in-the-world is something the ancients aspired to, but how truly free are we?  We would like to endow ourselves with the privilege of being 'free actors' in a 'free society', or that we freely choose the decision points we make during a given day, right?  I'd like to think I am free.

But are we?

But am I?

"One can only go down the same river a single time,

for the next time it is - in all physicality - a different river"

- Heraclitus

So when it comes to fate i.e. determinism, I'd like to say that it's not at all clear.  I can choose two roads diverged in the wood.  No matter which path I choose, by the time I made the same choice again it would be a new paradigm - hence determinism would say that free will is an illusion.

By virtue of the temporality facticity inherent in decisions we make...

So how can we be free?

The founders and framers thought about this quite seriously...  and essentially- in America -it comes down to 'the right to pursue happiness'.  Think about that!

Isn't the right to be happy through Individual volition a kind of freedom...

but still,

the DOI was deterministically fated to be our founding document in the United States of 'Merica.

If we fought 1776 again it would be a different war...

so perhaps we should admit,

We are not at all as free - as in free to 'choose' - as we might like to entitle ourselves with.  How can we admit we're not free and add style to our predetermined character?  How can we transcend sex roles and racial boundaries and be fated to unite?  How can we?

By practice.

That way the free choice decision point is so familiar one can masterfully make an adequate injunction into time and writ 7 law of creation!

RT STILLWELL

DEC 31st 2022

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