Saturday 23 January 2021

Thoughts on Freedom and Slavery

Man creates a nation and depending on the political character of the nation, man is either free or a slave. The concepts of “freedom” and “slavery” come into existence after people come together to create a nation. Just as the period of “night” grants relevance to the period of “day,” the existence of a nation (an entity that has the power to enslave) makes the concept of freedom relevant to us. We would not have known what freedom is, if we didn’t have the experience of the nations where people exist as slaves. The idea of slavery is a precursor to the idea of freedom. The desire for freedom is born in the mind of men who have endured the degrading experience of slavery. People living in free nations are not concerned about freedom. They take their liberties for granted, as something that has always existed and always will.

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