We now live in a world, even in America, where freedom is only an idea. "Freedom isn't free" is a popular slogan. Well, if this freedom spoken of isn't free then it isn't freedom is it?

We have enslaved ourselves. We have cuffed our own hands into bondage. The average American will tell you how powerless they feel. Just ask someone if they feel like they have control over their job, let alone if that particular job is truly where they want to be.

We have crafted a world where one can no longer take his or her "God given right" to walk out into nature and fend for him or herself. That is now illegal. Think about that. It is even illegal to pull down your zipper and spring a leak on a "public" tree. In certain cities, you must actually pay to use the rest room.

If we honestly want change, then we must look within and see what it is about ourselves that continually recreates the same reality. The scarcity, crime, terror, and horrors we face today are only reflections of inner our state. They are not the result of some mountain man in Afghanistan or the seedy government that seeks to dominate or, for Zeus' sake, the fault of an inanimate object brainwashing your mind or your child's. Remember, as a country, we wanted to be the best "above" the rest. We wanted a television in every home, with an endless selection of channels. What we have is exactly what we wanted.