Liberty and Enslavement

We are under social contracts when we signup to function along with a society or a community. The dawn of civilization was based on the equation where individual's participation in a group collectively decided the fate of a group, good or bad. The idea of individuals making choices for themselves or putting themselves first meant blasphemy. With this construct we have evolved over thousands and thousands of years and now our evolution gives space for any individual to function autonomously while still very much being a constructive part of a group or a commune. Now this conflict between the autonomous liberty and the age old concept of putting wellness of your group first is our human condition.

It feels like unicellular organisms evolved to be multicellular to create even more complex unicellular organisms and the process expands on and on!

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