“Freedumb”

November 12, 2021

By NZB3

Freedom makes you safe not tyranny. Is this the great disconnect? Those who are Collectivists hold the belief that safety comes from cutting down freedom and consent?

Hence this meme shared with approval by pro-Lockdown and pro-Covid Hysteria folk. ‘Freedumb,’ they say, is a noun. “The belief that your personal freedom outweights others’ personal safety.”

As if Freedom were not the core value, safety was. As such, it would be rational to surrender all virtues and all values, all life, just to live. To survive. Submission makes you safe according to this calculus, not holding on to your individual right to think and act. Someone else gets to do the thinking and acting for you, someone you submit to, a leader, when you are scared.

And here’s a defense of the above when I pushed back on it..

We are tribal animals. Individual behavior does not always help the group and we are interdependent. Sometimes we need to make choices that help the community that might not suit our own particular belief. We do not all have all the information to make decisions that help the group, so we need leaders to guide group behaviour. This can be perceived as tyranny by someone who does not understand the concept of community.” – Nicola Petty, Information is deadly vaccines save lives disinformation is deadly Facebook wrapper user¹

We are tribal? If so doesn’t that suggest different tribes with different values?

Individual behavior does not always help the group? But then why should it? An assumption of collectivism.

Sometimes we need to make choices that help the community? Which community needs our help? The one we exercise our freedom of association to belong to or one that claims ownership over us as if people were livestock? And by “make choices” Nicola means nothing of the sort or we wouldn’t be having this discussion about freedom of choice. She mean’s compulsion but recognises what a dirty thing to say that would be so obscures it under the branding of virtue, of ‘choice’. The robber’s salute to virtue is to steal their stuff and that includes their words.

…that might not suit our own particular belief. Minimisation. The dissenter’s conviction is reduced to ‘suitability’ and ‘particularity’ and ‘might nots’. They get to have a weak form of knowledge called ‘belief’ while the compulsion-touters have their language privileged as “all the information” and “decisions” and “leadership guidance.”

Note how tightly packed in all these conceits are. This is a person well versed and educated in Group Think, to be able to compact so much collectivist ethic into just one paragraph either directly or indirectly through assumptions and language. It makes this deconstruction exercise useful. Let’s go on..

We do not all have all the information? Nobody has all the infomation. That’s not how the economics of knowledge works. But each of us, in a free market, faces the challenge of finding out what they need to or choosing a proficient friend or public thinker whose analysis they draw from. We don’t need that freedom of what information to consume forced upon us.

…to make decisions that help the group, so we need leaders to guide group behaviour. See? She wants a “leader” to “have all the information” and impose their will. Sorry, “guidance.” Typical trick used here. Establish that nobody knows everything so your intellectual opponent down-grades the status of their knowledge and then insert your own know-it-all who breaks the nobody-knows rule you just applied 4 seconds ago…

This can be perceived as tyranny by someone who does not understand the concept of community? Again, not RECOGNISED or IDENTIFIED as tyranny. It’s a precept, not even a concept. It’s a “perception.” And it’s a misconception at that. The sort of error that only someone who doesn’t “understand” is capable of committing. And to top it all off with the ultimate insult to the tens of thousands of free-thinkers, their communities, their tribes, we are told what they don’t understand. They don’t “understand the concept of community.”

Of course, free thinking people are the only ones who understand and have communities. Nicola Petty, while she self-regulates in this mode at least, has no community. She has a network. There’s a big difference.

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1 Not knowing if I had consent to share these words would usually give me pause until I found out. In this case I think approval has been given in principle since Nicola clearly puts the needs of the many above the needs of herself

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