#society #freedom #knowledge #epistemology #rationality # [[Epistemic status]] #schroedinger-uncertain # Freedom is illegal >Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows >~ [[George Orwell]] [[Politic]], #society and the state are based off [[Common knowledge]], everyone should know the [[Law]]. If you don’t know the law you are a criminal, if you don’t watch the news, you are a criminal, if you don’t get your daily **brainwashing**, you are a criminal. As an example, during the Covid pandemic, at least early days, if you would get in the street, not having watched the news, and enter shops etc without a mask, you are like a criminal, people hate you. That’s why **Freedom is illegal**. That escalated quickly, but I’m honest, I’m bad at lying. If you don’t share the [[Common knowledge]] of society, **you are an outlier**, if you don’t think like the crowd, it’s bad. If you don’t agree to common sense society, it’s bad. [[Jed McKenna]] illustrates well the prison in which society puts us. >When you see the significance of environment, it means drastic action, a tremendous upheaval in your life, a complete, revolutionary change of ideas, in which there is **no authority, no imitation**. >~ [[Krishnamurti]] **The rational man should break the law, in secret**, or end up like [[Turing]], killed by society for thinking differently (even though he saved society). >Inwardly, we ought to be different in all respects, but our exterior should conform to society. > ~ [[Seneca]] ## 1984 #todo ## [[The Matrix is reality]]