On Development and Freedom

Development and freedom are unity of opposites, and being able to develop is actually a kind of freedom.

When we were young, when we were studying and playing, we could only play while we were playing, and we could only choose one of them when we were learning. At work, we can only rest when we rest and work when we work, not at the same time. Freedom should break through restrictions and choose new conditions; development should have certain restrictions and fixed conditions. Therefore, it can be seen that development and freedom are opposite.

How many people have achieved freedom, but some people are mentally imprisoned, develop less and get more freedom. Since ancient times, how many people have fought for freedom, even if they shed blood and sacrifice, are all the all-round development of begging for people. There is a saying like this: life is precious, love is more true, if for freedom, both can be thrown away.

According to the common sense of today's society, development is the last word. As it develops, it will be more advanced than before and its ability will be improved. Therefore, they can do all kinds of things, create all kinds of conditions, carry out new creations under certain conditions, and finally achieve the goal of understanding and transforming the world. In this way, because it has been developed, the knowledge will increase, the technology will be mastered, and the production capacity will certainly be improved. Just like the workers, they used to study at school and learned the knowledge and technology of construction and manufacturing. In the work of society, they build houses, build roads, make cars in factories, make clothes and shoes in factories, and so on. Be able to work creatively in this way, make the product, realize the creative ability, get the product. If it develops in this way, it becomes freedom. In fact, it is freedom, the freedom of continuous development.

A person who has no or less freedom is those who are disabled (physical or mental) who are restrained, restricted and hit a brick wall everywhere. Without purpose, plan and ideal, we must lose the freedom to know the direction, the freedom to know the route, and the freedom to know the value, just like being tied up in a chaotic world (or spiritual prison). People who lack arms and legs find it difficult to go anywhere because of lack of feet, while many simple tasks for normal people without hands become extremely difficult or even impossible to complete. Some severely disabled people can't take care of themselves. In this way, the development of the two kinds of disabled people mentioned above is not good, and their freedom is very little.

In primitive society, human beings have a low degree of understanding and are in the stage of ignorance, so they cannot extend their understanding to a deeper stage and better transform the world for survival. As a result, the freedom realized by the ancients is not as advanced as the freedom of today. Freedom of development is not only high, but also good. People with mental disabilities are like the ancients, or even worse than the ancients, almost like animals. This shows that people like mental disability have never developed very much, have never lost a lot of freedom in a certain sense, and are mentally imprisoned. In this way, we can see that people with mental disabilities, whether in the outside society or in mental hospitals, are less free to live, like being in prison or "sealed". From this we can see that the lack of freedom caused by mental disability is different from the common crime of imprisonment. People with mental disabilities have little freedom with or without prison, absolutely less freedom and absolutely less development. On the contrary, relatively little freedom, refers to the material, is relatively little development. Therefore, among human beings, those with the least freedom and less development are those with mental disabilities, followed by material disabilities, and the most free people are people with a high degree of all-round development (people with strong abilities).

Therefore, generally speaking, development and freedom are unified. Development is to achieve higher and better freedom, and when you are free, you can strive to promote development. Freedom has achieved a breakthrough in choice, and under certain conditions, development can be better achieved towards the goal, while development has completed freedom at the same time. The two are related and dialectical.