We are not so free

We could think of individual freedom in terms of Power Parity Purchase (PPP). We can think of freedom in terms of how aware we are of being free. I don’t think we often thing of freedom, but rather in consuming, everything outside, feelings. Freedom in mass culture societies is something different to freedom in dictatorships. Thinking of ppp, any degree of freedom, also when it’s really small, is worth greater than the degree of freedom we formally have nowadays. I’d say that in practice we’re not that free nowadays; we became less imaginative, less aware of the importance of freedom....and most of us are prone to think of the same range of things and think and behave more or less the same way...in fact nowadays world is some other kind of dictatorship and maybe we’re manipulated and we think we’re acting freely. And maybe under many dictatorships, some segments of the population were more aware of the manipulation and used imagination as a tool of freedom. Freedom is maybe not saying, writing what we want freely, but not being manipulated. Manipulation kills freedom. Imagination kills manipulation. Who is freer? A dollar is not worth the same here as in Laos.