Another Consideration of Free Will

I’ve been thinking about the polarity between free will and fate. The evidence of my more than three quarters of a century convinces me that we are most likely firmly attached to the fate-end of the spectrum between those poles.

I used to think that we had some choice in small decisions, but I’m beginning to doubt we even have that. For all of society’s and our own best intentions (dare I say, choices), we are still barreling down the path of extinction.

It’s in the interest of the world’s rulers to endorse, propogate (propaganda), particularly of the more ‘conservative’ and authoritarian varieties, the idea that whatever happens to anyone is a product of their own choices, and not the inevitable consequence of the rulers’ policies and the flow of whatever current of space/time we happened to be born into, relieving those rulers and society of any responsibility or obligation to their fellow sentients. At least, that’s how it seems to me in our mutual position in space/time’s current.

–LE – 1/12/25