Beware Of Equality, It Is Against Freedom!
Those who canvass for freedom say that a necessary part of freedom isequality. But it is strange logic nat equality has to be established for edom to come, and that freedom has be sacrificed for the sake of equality he truth is, once freedom is lost, who ill restore it? People forget that the person who ill make them all equal will himself mean free and unequal; he will remain outside of them all. He will have no utters on his feet and, he will have a gun his hand. Now you can well envision a ociety where most people are in hackles, and a handful are free and powerful with all modern instruments suppression and oppression at their sposal. What can you do in a situation ek this? Marx said that in order to achieve quality in society first, suppress political freedom, destroy individual liberty andestablish a dictatorship. And he thought that after the achievement of equality, freedom would be restored to the people. But what we see is that as the power of those who govern us grows, and as the people, the 'ruled', aresystema- tically suppressed and debilitated, the hope for freedom becomes increasingly dim. Then it is difficult even to raise the question of freedom. Nobody dares ask a question, speak his thoughts, much less dissented rebel against the establishment In the name of equality, and under cover of equality, freedom could get destroyed; then it will be nearly impossible to win it back-because those who destroy freedom will see to it that the chances of its being revived inthe future are also destroyed. Secondly, while freedom is an absolutely natural phenomenon, which everyone must have as his right, equality isnot. Equality is neither natural nor possible. All people cannot be equal because they are basically unequal. But everyone should be free to be what he is and what he can be; to be himself. If equality is forced on people then their freedom is bound to diminish and disappear. Anything imposed with force is synonymous with slavery. Only free individuals make a society and where sovereignty of the individual is denied, society turns into a herd, a mob. This is the difference between society and crowd. Society is another name for the interrelationship of individuals, a cooperative of individuals-but the individual has to be there, he is the basic unit of society. There cannot be a society inside a all prison; a prison can only have a crowca collection of faceless individuals. Prisoners also relate with each other, exchanging greetings and gifts among themselves, but they are definitely no society. They have just been gathered together and forced to live within the four walls of a prison; it is not their free choice. Evil wants to destroy the individuaseen as a thorn in its flesh. It wants the crowd, the mass to live and grow. Goodon the contrary, accepts the individuaand wants him to grow to his supremefulfillment and, at the same time, it wants the crowd to disappear gradual from the scene. Good stands for a socieof free individuals. Individuals will, ocourse, have relationships, butthen itwill be a society and not a herd, not a crowd. Abridged from Krishna Smriti Osho Times International, Courtesy Osho International Foundation,
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Beware Of Equality, It Is Against Freedom!
Those who canvass for freedom say that a necessary part of freedom isequality. But it is strange logic nat equality has to be established for edom to come, and that freedom has be sacrificed for the sake of equality he truth is, once freedom is lost, who ill restore it? People forget that the person who ill make them all equal will himself mean free and unequal; he will remain outside of them all. He will have no utters on his feet and, he will have a gun his hand. Now you can well envision a ociety where most people are in hackles, and a handful are free and powerful with all modern instruments suppression and oppression at their sposal. What can you do in a situation ek this? Marx said that in order to achieve quality in society first, suppress political freedom, destroy individual liberty andestablish a dictatorship. And he thought that after the achievement of equality, freedom would be restored to the people. But what we see is that as the power of those who govern us grows, and as the people, the 'ruled', aresystema- tically suppressed and debilitated, the hope for freedom becomes increasingly dim. Then it is difficult even to raise the question of freedom. Nobody dares ask a question, speak his thoughts, much less dissented rebel against the establishment In the name of equality, and under cover of equality, freedom could get destroyed; then it will be nearly impossible to win it back-because those who destroy freedom will see to it that the chances of its being revived inthe future are also destroyed. Secondly, while freedom is an absolutely natural phenomenon, which everyone must have as his right, equality isnot. Equality is neither natural nor possible. All people cannot be equal because they are basically unequal. But everyone should be free to be what he is and what he can be; to be himself. If equality is forced on people then their freedom is bound to diminish and disappear. Anything imposed with force is synonymous with slavery. Only free individuals make a society and where sovereignty of the individual is denied, society turns into a herd, a mob. This is the difference between society and crowd. Society is another name for the interrelationship of individuals, a cooperative of individuals-but the individual has to be there, he is the basic unit of society. There cannot be a society inside a all prison; a prison can only have a crowca collection of faceless individuals. Prisoners also relate with each other, exchanging greetings and gifts among themselves, but they are definitely no society. They have just been gathered together and forced to live within the four walls of a prison; it is not their free choice. Evil wants to destroy the individuaseen as a thorn in its flesh. It wants the crowd, the mass to live and grow. Goodon the contrary, accepts the individuaand wants him to grow to his supremefulfillment and, at the same time, it wants the crowd to disappear gradual from the scene. Good stands for a socieof free individuals. Individuals will, ocourse, have relationships, butthen itwill be a society and not a herd, not a crowd. Abridged from Krishna Smriti Osho Times International, Courtesy Osho International Foundation,
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The views expressed in the Article above are Osho. kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Osho. Speaking Tree and Times of India