Re: Unconditional freedom

People want to eliminate injunctions and constraints in order to play the 
game of being independent. In the old days people believed that it was the

conscience that gave freedom of conscience, that if one had conscience, 
freedom was sure to come along. But to eliminate every constraint, to 
loosen every bond, meant at best to make it as free and as convenient as 
possible for everyone to have no conscience while imagining that he had 
one. All this talk about eliminating constraint comes either from the 
coddled or from those who perhaps once felt the power to fight but are now

exhausted and find it nicer to have all constraints taken away.

Bruderhof wrote:

> What Augustine says about true freedom (distinguished from freedom of 
> choice) is very true and very much a part of experience. Namely, that
> a person has the most lively sense of freedom when with completely
> decisive determination he impresses upon his action the inner
> necessity which excludes the thought of another possibility. Then
> freedom of choice or the “agony” of choice comes to an end.
>