Freedom, a relative concept.

What is freedom? No restrictions? Having more choices or having fewer when all are equal? I'm beginning to think perhaps there is advantage with the latter. When our neighbours are in the same boat, having to live with the same restrictions, limitations of goods, places to go, things to do, life seems much simpler, after a fashion. Isn't a dividing factor the ability to have, do more, acquisition with less effort and time compared to each equal and opposite drove down ability by a limiting societal structure? The imbalance of structural fabrication pitting us against one another in inhumane competition?

In real terms, of course, we are not swimming against the same tide even when held to ransom by a pandemic but what appears on the surface as an imposed curtailment of freedom for all, providing fewer choices, is there not the liberation of sorts from having to choose? From a cessation in watching our neighbours doing what we can not because of a structure those neighbours play a part in creating perhaps unwittingly? Not all is naturally balanced with the ability of mind and body, albeit such advantages and disadvantages also in part due to the human-made structure of how we live and support one another or not, but a free world surely would imply a system whereby each and every disablement would be catered for, provided the proverbial 'step up', equality for all, yes, no? There is argument that where there is equality there is less freedom, fewer opportunities to grow in material terms. I beg to differ. I put forward where there there is societal understanding, cooperation, there is social cohesion, balance and mutual respect where no one's liberty is gained at the expense of another's and visa versa. What is repression if not the exploitation of one's freedom for the advantage and furtherance of another's? Are we not an advanced species that no longer apply to the Darwinian rules whereby only the fittest survive but instead to also a natural phenomenon of having the wherewithal for compassion and mutual aid? Hasn't this lockdown proven that if not also how the lesser progressed in maturity struggle to express clarity of need and how this too can be exploited? What say you, comrades?