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I had an insight this morning about freedom, the most noblest of virtues and both the motive and spearhead of our protest - that freedom only exists because of its antithesis. If there was no slavery, the concept of freedom wouldn't exist. Could this binary simplification be another tactic to maintain a collective worldview? Like the binary politics of left and right?

To indigenous peoples before colonial domination, I would think their lives were natural in harmony with the earth without the concept of freedom. We only think of it as such in regard to slavery.

It's just a thought to get into a greater sphere of being, beyond freedom or slavery, outside of that binary either/or. I welcome your comments on this, Kyle.

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