Choice is not freedom. Choice is a burden. The more choices we are subjected to, the less free we are. Freedom can be found on a mountain top, where there are no choices but to watch, to feel, to experience. On that mountain-top, you might recognise that freedom is a feeling rather than the result of having many choices and options. It is the feeling of being in the moment, without being subjected to demands and choices. It is the feeling of purely being present.

Sometimes we say that money buys freedom. It is in a sense true, because money removes many of the burdens that come with being subjected to choices. Money has the effect of bringing the feeling of the mountain top to you, wherever you are. You are no longer burdened by worries about making wrong choices because money can alleviate the consequences of making poor choices. So money removes existential fear.

Freedom to me is existing without worry about where tomorrows meals will come from. It is existing without worry about the electric bill, or your living situation. It is existing with a sense of unshakeable safety. We all want that, and seek that. We all know what freedom is, but many gets confused about about the meaning of the word. Such "lack of worry" is real wealth. Someone who is wealthy in this way, is free.

The man that desires nothing, is free because he is free of the fear and worry that comes with many possessions. The fear of losing it. The fear of not having enough. Fear traps us in all sorts of chains. Fear has created our whole society.

I wonder what would happen if we created a society not from fear, but from love. If the world loved you, and supported you - and you supported and loved it also.. would you not be safe? Would you not also then be free?

That is the core insight behind "socialism". But because we do not understand freedom, we embed fear into even our socialist societies and their systems. So they also eventually fail. Someone who hates and fears socialism, does not understand socialism.

People who do not understand socialism, but attempt to create socialist societies, do not in the end create true socialism. Such systems must all eventually fail, because they are not rooted in love.