Just a nightly thought

Do we want to be free or do we want to be safe? It seems the majority want both without realising that increase in safety comes at the cost of decreasing freedom. So perhaps we really want safety while keeping the illusion of freedom. The group majority cannot have full freedom but can reach ultimate safety, the individual cannot have full safety but can reach ultimate freedom. This is the dance I think we have been playing for a while without getting anywhere. If we think there has to be a balance then we need to forgo the idea of ultimate freedom. Having that illusion is akin to having the illusion of god for safety.

So, again, if there has to be a balance, in a democratically inclined society, we have to decide which freedoms are we willing to give up and which safeties are worth endorsing. Is that what the American constitution tries to resolve? Is that something, variations of it, we need to implement elsewhere? I wonder. I wonder where this song and dance will lead us.

Should we play the game of anarchy or should we play the game of fascism? Or should we play the tunes of somewhere in between knowing and coming to terms with the fact that the extremes of both are never the play? What I am certain of is that we cannot play all at once and think anything good will come from it.