The freedoms that we enjoy allow us to grow obese to the point of not being able to walk consuming products that we know are not good for us yet don't quite know why we can't stop eating them. The freedom to think whatever the media tells us to with it's mock debates and bashing of any idea outside corporate structure. It gives us the freedom to make our children addicted to television crippling their mental development while both parents work full-time. We talk about why autism and ADD are increasingly prevelant among our children but enjoy the freedom of feeding them preservatives poisons and pesticides which are even more damaging to younger than the are carcinegenic for the rest of us. They give us the industrial freedom to ruin our soil, water and air making everyday life a health risk. These freedoms must be treasured.
We have the freedom for pop music to be devoid of social value and teach children about sex and the glamour of living in excess that we should all expire to. We have hollywood to enforce stereotypes of the black, poor and gay. Free at last!
We have the freedom to work if we want to eat, have a roof over our heads and send our children to school. Ok we need to produce to exist but what for the loosers, the disabled, those with social and mental dificulties, the old, the young, those addicted to drugs, those who have been abused? Do they also deserve these luxuries? And why can it never be enough in our world? Why must the house be bigger, the ring larger, the TV flatter?
Where do we learn these values? Where do we learn our fears? Where do we learn our prejudices and racism? Social psychologists have proven that if a black person has to write they are black on an exam the results will be worse - this is something we learn.
The point! We are eneviatably a product of our surroundings. We are surrounded by thousands of things that are damaging us physically and mentally which we don't need to be surrounded by. We are taught the prejudices that we know. We are taught that the world must be the way it is: we must have winners and losers; good people and bad people; rich and poor.
The reason why we are surrounded by these toxic influences and substances living this life of psuedohappiness for the winners and misery for the losers is because the economic system mandates all of the above troubles. Every problem above exists for an economic ends.
The solution...
We must create a new consciousness which recognises that corporate freedom is not the same as human freedom. We must look at the net effect of MacDonalds and Coke and the majority of our media content. Realise that they are extremely effective in manipulating our desires and perseptions and extremely addictive but also realise that they are definate negative influences on society. We don't need corparate freedom to kill us. We don't need corporate freedom to make us hate. It's not for any human ends.. it's all for the money and money isn't real.