A "Missed Conception"

I decided to write this article when my comment to your last post was getting too large !

I know you are not a fan of Machiavelli, but he used to say that "Nothing is more destructive to itself than the excess of freedom".

I believe that we often mistake the concepts of freedom and happiness.
Sometimes they can be so different.
Sometimes, they may be coincident.
Like a caged bird (Una gabbia andó in cerca di un uccelo, haha). For a bird, happiness and freedom are equally represented by their flight.
Birds are ultimate free creatures. They don't need their homes, they can change it whenever they want. They don't need money, neihter garbagge nor big goals.

Humans, however, are wingless "lonely two-legged creatures". Therefore, some of us feel the need to possess a large amount of wealth, huge palaces, the achievement of grand objectives. Churchill used to say that we are all prisioners of our own minds.
I understand that quote in the following way :
"We humans have become slaves of our own racionality. We built a culture that evolves faster than our brain's development itself. We have become in need and completly dependent of our cultural creations. We need our homes, we need our technologies, we need our poems. We live a life that is artificial in it's very essence".
Nonetheless, it is still possible to find happiness despites being utterly consumed by the daily logistics of life.
My actual and personal idea on human freedom is that a human being may only achieve true freedom through death.

Written by Daedalus in reply to Uranus' last article.