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Issues at Hand
Freedom has many aspects: Personal, interpersonal in ever widening circles of interconnection (national, international, and cosmic). This article focuses on the freedom that we can experience in everyday life. For example, the freedom to wake up in the morning when you wish to have. Clearly, someone who has a fixed idea of freedom may not be free.

Political freedom dominates the public discourse, and yet some much of life is not "free". To have children is to give up much of our personal freedom for the care and welfare of our kids.

World governments constrain and control citizens in the interest of public law and order. In such ways, governments assume use of power to keep the world peaceful. Let's us question this assumption. The information age is changing the playing field. Citizens of the world are now possible. The nation states can dissolve away into "networks" of information exchanged and self governance. Wikipedia is an ideal model for what is possible.

Creating a new world
The "new world" is already here. It is self organizing and global. it works below the levels of governments and large corporations. It is the interconnected "global main" spontiously self organizating of the Internet and other communications protocols as may arrive. This is a revolution that has personal, spiritual, economic, and social implications. It is larger that all of up; we are watching the birth of a new world order. Naturally there is opposition - taking forms of being ignored or devalued.

Love
Love is all about making connection and being able to be "inside" each other's states. We develop the virtues of empathy, etc.

Inner freedom
Real freedom begins with an inner search: an exploration of the limitations and possibilies of our lives and the lives of people around us. (At last, able to use the visual editor. It was not obvious as to how to get here?)

Artistic Freedom
The core of freedom is in the multiple acts of creation that we engage in during our days. For example, the action of composing content for Wikipedia is a great creative adventure.

Free Speech
The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California is one possible expression of the need to speak out minds in public discourse. Images of Free Speech Movement.