Not knowing you're caged

 One of the scariest realizations that a person can have is to be told that they were in a cage. This cage can be either emotional or real - it depends on how strongly you believe you're free.

If you're putting a newborn fish into a bowl in your living room, it knows no river. And if you don't know it, it simply doesnt exist for you. As we perceive the fish has, it has no sense of what freedom is.

But there's something that's only revealed once you look at it while you are that fish. That the world, no matter how small or brief it is, we make up the meaning and free will with what we have.

In an ideal, truly isolated regime, everything that matters for the commoner is only their surroundings. You don't see the walls, because the walls look like freedom. You see the skies, but you just can't reach them. You see power, but you just can't have it. Doesn't all that feel relatable? at least a little bit.

It's just that we all live in cages that we as mortals develop. We live a brief while, but try to complicate the moment so much so that it feels like a cage, and more like free will.

Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" conveys the myth as a metaphor for mortal beings. That the king struggles to cover up the meaninglessness of his eternal nightmare with made-up meaning that reminds him that he is still in control of his simulated free will.

Sometimes it just works for the moment, an artist can paint anything on a wall, because that's their way of picturing free will to display anything however they want.

Maybe like we have religion, state, laws, and money, the fish in the bowl might have made up its little world within, exercising its limitless freedom, only bound by its imagination. 


Can't escape this bit, because what a web system like mine tries to do is to abstract what we have and making it feel like freedom. And most of the time, the sense of freedom is all that we need.

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