I headed down the track my baggage on my back I left the city far behind walkin' down the road with my heavy load tryin' to find some peace of mind father said you'll be sorry, son if you leave your home this way and when you realize the freedom money buys you'll come running home some day
I've been looking for freedom I've been looking so long I've been looking for freedom still the search goes on I've been looking for freedom since I left my home town
"Hasselhoff has had only one number-one hit in the German pop charts in 1989 ("Looking for Freedom") and two more top-ten hits in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Most other releases failed to enter the top forty. Notably, he sang "Looking for Freedom" in Germany at the Berlin Wall when it was coming down on January 31, 1989.", (Wikipedia, URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hasselhoff).
Freedom is a temptation we'd not only go in jail for - we'd happily go and die for freedom. Well, once behind bars or dead you're just not so free any more, right!?
“[L]iberal democracy advocates a world in which social order rests crucially upon the citizenry’s faith in the good consciences of those who govern [...] [t]his vision entails a general promise, a promise of happiness to the citizen who partakes in his own freedom”, (Barry & Osborne & Rose (red), 1996: 81).
Listen up, be amazed and bow down before the core of american dream dear citizens of the World! The dream of freedom is worth a life in intellectual, ideological, and above all culturall captivity - a total confinment!
We should be careful about what we wish for and how much we really want it - how long we are prepared to go to get it since whatever the chase there is always a point of no return that when passed implies that the stakes are higher then whatever gain awaits for us so irresistable.
Whatever is at stake here, it might just be lost in the hazy backyard of expectations of modernity the actual dimension of which we know nothing about. Or, in a word, whatever there is to gain in this chase of future might not be worth the loss – the chase might be better than the catch. The relation between investment made and the price at the end is continuously in progress, and also in harmony with our Western principles, (Maynard 2006). Vision of rebellion against failure in life through hard work and persistance seduces us easily and render gambling for uncertain future as a rational choice, especially when there’s nothing to lose. While still a pretty safe bet with everything to gain and nothing to loose for all actors involved, this relational equation seems to be moving towards the point where we’re all out of investment and the price just isn’t all that attractive any more. The question is if, once we notice that we have run past that point, there is a way back. While focusing upon the strategies to alleviate human burden of desire, the culturally infused will to achieve, to progress and let misrecognition be a shelter of comfort – perhaps we should at regular intervals try at least to remind ourselves of what is at stake? It is possible that our humanity is being compromised in the process.
Say hello
Success storytellers are enlightening us Happiness is for sale and it’s ready to use Urban dwellers aren’t makin’ no fuss Freedom’s for sale and it comes with the noose It’s a campaign offer and submission’s the price Tomorrow’s history is yesterdays news Each step you take is just a roll of the dice In this soul-market tragedy everybody loose
Reflected eyes, this must be lie There’s way too many of me, myself and I’s The mirror mocks me, it multiplies Image transcending, misrecognize
If you see me let me know So I can go and say hello To whatever is left of me And whatever I may be
Authorus Anonymous (As For Now)
The point is that ideas of freedom rest on socioculturally constructed ideals of activity and achievement, i.e. societal expectations of goal oriented self-improvement and self-development from every individual. The personal improvement in form of achievements appears as a Western secular golden calf, outlining the normative route towards the future on the map of mankind. In this process even the course of embodying and sedimentation of cultural influence and institutional pressure through self-reflexive interaction with societal institutions is being upgraded and (consciously or not) made more progressive. This neo-liberal individualism leaves a whole lot of responsibility for the outcome of the socioeconomic situation of every individual on the individual herself under the banner of ultimate freedom so adored, a guise behind which the actual individual enactment is in fact restricted by normative structural forces of institutionalized Biopolitical power-knowledge – a frame dictated by our contemporary Power Elite consisting of billionaires, Government leaders, conglomerate company stakeholders and board members, Think-Tanks, Oillords, Military Industrial Complexes etc. A frame they wrap our freedom in is as wide and liberating as iron maiden. Or in a word, to act you must – though it’s a pity that your options are so few and beforehand predetermined for you. So, kneel and comply FREELY - and then we say "Jump!" and you say "How high?". In the name of freedom.
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"Run run run run to your place till you're gone,
Where do you go to be free?"
I've been looking for freedom
I headed down the track
my baggage on my back
I left the city far behind
walkin' down the road
with my heavy load
tryin' to find
some peace of mind
father said you'll be sorry, son
if you leave your home this way
and when you realize
the freedom money buys
you'll come running home some day
I've been looking for freedom
I've been looking so long
I've been looking for freedom
still the search goes on
I've been looking for freedom
since I left my home town
DAVID HASSELHOFF
:))))))))))))))))))))))))
"Hasselhoff has had only one number-one hit in the German pop charts in 1989 ("Looking for Freedom") and two more top-ten hits in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Most other releases failed to enter the top forty. Notably, he sang "Looking for Freedom" in Germany at the Berlin Wall when it was coming down on January 31, 1989.",
(Wikipedia, URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hasselhoff).
"...Unlike the sun that shines through a crimson sky..."
E moj Mitch, nista od tebe i tvoje muzike!
Bruce
I need some freedom
Freedom for my people
I want some freedom
Satan And Adam
Freedom is a temptation we'd not only go in jail for - we'd happily go and die for freedom. Well, once behind bars or dead you're just not so free any more, right!?
“[L]iberal democracy advocates a world in which social order rests crucially upon the citizenry’s faith in the good consciences of those who govern [...] [t]his vision entails a general promise, a promise of happiness to the citizen who partakes in his own freedom”, (Barry & Osborne & Rose (red), 1996: 81).
Listen up, be amazed and bow down before the core of american dream dear citizens of the World! The dream of freedom is worth a life in intellectual, ideological, and above all culturall captivity - a total confinment!
We should be careful about what we wish for and how much we really want it - how long we are prepared to go to get it since whatever the chase there is always a point of no return that when passed implies that the stakes are higher then whatever gain awaits for us so irresistable.
Whatever is at stake here, it might just be lost in the hazy backyard of expectations of modernity the actual dimension of which we know nothing about. Or, in a word, whatever there is to gain in this chase of future might not be worth the loss – the chase might be better than the catch. The relation between investment made and the price at the end is continuously in progress, and also in harmony with our Western principles, (Maynard 2006). Vision of rebellion against failure in life through hard work and persistance seduces us easily and render gambling for uncertain future as a rational choice, especially when there’s nothing to lose. While still a pretty safe bet with everything to gain and nothing to loose for all actors involved, this relational equation seems to be moving towards the point where we’re all out of investment and the price just isn’t all that attractive any more. The question is if, once we notice that we have run past that point, there is a way back. While focusing upon the strategies to alleviate human burden of desire, the culturally infused will to achieve, to progress and let misrecognition be a shelter of comfort – perhaps we should at regular intervals try at least to remind ourselves of what is at stake? It is possible that our humanity is being compromised in the process.
Say hello
Success storytellers are enlightening us
Happiness is for sale and it’s ready to use
Urban dwellers aren’t makin’ no fuss
Freedom’s for sale and it comes with the noose
It’s a campaign offer and submission’s the price
Tomorrow’s history is yesterdays news
Each step you take is just a roll of the dice
In this soul-market tragedy everybody loose
Reflected eyes, this must be lie
There’s way too many of me, myself and I’s
The mirror mocks me, it multiplies
Image transcending, misrecognize
If you see me let me know
So I can go and say hello
To whatever is left of me
And whatever I may be
Authorus Anonymous (As For Now)
The point is that ideas of freedom rest on socioculturally constructed ideals of activity and achievement, i.e. societal expectations of goal oriented self-improvement and self-development from every individual. The personal improvement in form of achievements appears as a Western secular golden calf, outlining the normative route towards the future on the map of mankind. In this process even the course of embodying and sedimentation of cultural influence and institutional pressure through self-reflexive interaction with societal institutions is being upgraded and (consciously or not) made more progressive. This neo-liberal individualism leaves a whole lot of responsibility for the outcome of the socioeconomic situation of every individual on the individual herself under the banner of ultimate freedom so adored, a guise behind which the actual individual enactment is in fact restricted by normative structural forces of institutionalized Biopolitical power-knowledge – a frame dictated by our contemporary Power Elite consisting of billionaires, Government leaders, conglomerate company stakeholders and board members, Think-Tanks, Oillords, Military Industrial Complexes etc. A frame they wrap our freedom in is as wide and liberating as iron maiden. Or in a word, to act you must – though it’s a pity that your options are so few and beforehand predetermined for you. So, kneel and comply FREELY - and then we say "Jump!" and you say "How high?". In the name of freedom.
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