By: SaMa’at Sakuhai

The notion of “freedom” is one that could quite literally be a synonym for the concept of “irony”. It is this writer’s view, as per exposure to basic existential reasoning, that no one is ever really free. If a person was truly free, then that individual would be able to sidestep the process of coming to this life, where one has no control over the fact that they must die. Life itself, as embodied beings, has the unavoidable effect of bondage to the demands of existing in bodily form. Any even perfunctory conception of “freedom” is then, by this logic, necessarily submitted to the contexts of the inherent demands of sustaining one’s life.