TED is a very interesting site that I can recommend. The site features videos from the annual TED conference that…
… brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
I found this one particulary interesting in my latest bit of surfing I did…
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
What he talks about touches on a lots of subjects, and ofcourse I automatically connect to what he says at the end about income redistribution and interprit everything in the light of the ideas and thoughts I have about simplicity vs. consumerism etc.
But I think the biggest question this one sparked is the one the young girl ask in the album version of the song at the end of the post.
What is freedom anyways?
My defenition would have something to do with being slaves under sin and then being freed from that through Jesus. But is being a slave to God, as Paul puts it, a state where one is more free? If the life God wants for us is anything like the Benedictian vows, would it qualify as a life full of freedom? I can’t see it as freedom if it is about having a multitude of choices, and being able to do exactly what you want, when you want, which is the common defenition, no?
I give you a question, no straight answer this time. You have my permission to use the comment function to add your thoughts.
How would you define freedom?
This awesome piece of CCM Rock history touches on the subject. I give you the song I took the post’s title from, White Heart with Independance Day.
Edit: Video changed since the better version of the music video was removed from youtube by angry lawyers. If you have Spotify, here’s the link.