What is freedom?

Photograph of American Bald Eagle

What is freedom, actual freedom?
Friday – October 10, 2025

In my post from June 27 about freedom, I didn't cover in great detail what actual freedom entails and that is what I intend to do today in this post, so bear with me. As I've stated in the past: the tiger, the eagle, the apex predator does not ask for permission, he acts and he succeeds. For the apex, success comes not from hesitation, fear, and anxiety, but from share and raw power over the material dominion, and this is the essential quality of freedom: the ability to carve out your own path, your own destiny in the world. Nobody said that freedom was free or that it was cheap and indeed for most men life in stasis is simply much too comfortable and they would never dare give up this comfort. For most men freedom is not preferable to security and comfort; indeed most men would choose slavery to freedom. Why? Well, freedom is not easy; freedom requires willpower and discipline so that you may gain true education and true skillful means. At the same time, freedom is not about conquering the material domain, only a being powerless in the face of nature would resort to such drastic means. Why is life under the materialist order more preferable to life in nature? Again, life in nature is harsh, unforgiving, and indifferent. In nature suffering is the norm, it's the background noise, and if you're actually going to be truly free you need to leave humanity and civilization behind. But this is not because civilization in and of itself has to be fundamentally unfree; this is because of the political order within any civilization, the rule of the beast. Indeed, what is modern democracy if not the rule of the beast, the many beasts, the beastly? What kind of freedom is this? Well, this is no kind of freedom; this is the opposite of freedom, this is dictatorship. Indeed, men require dictatorship, or at least the beastly form requires dictatorship. See, freedom is also not totalitarian, but within each man, particularly so when it comes to the political object, the beast in his most advanced form, that totalitarian tendency to redefine the whole world exists. Indeed, what kind of freedom is universal? See, the central problem with all the grand and fantastical assertions by the proponents of the humanist axiom is that they've made the world and the problems of the world very easy for themselves: they simply make each problem universal and more so each solution to each problem, always material problems, universal. The liberal claims dominion over all men on Earth, and he will impose with righteous might this hegemony, this materialist order, for him liberal hegemony is true, the only true freedom there is. Of course, a man that attempts to define freedom for all other men cannot be said to know of that word freedom. This paradox, this fundamental contradiction at the core of the imperialist enterprise is what has and will doom the western world and indeed the whole humanist axiom: in their vision— the revolutionary elite, the proponents of the materialist saga and the materialist order—have placed themselves on the throne of the creator; for them only the materialist pursuit defines man, and this is why the capitalist production base requires of each man that he, his life, and his very being becomes more and more compressed into that single unit of society, the individual. Again I ask, what kind of freedom is this? And again I assert that this indeed is no kind of freedom! The eagle does not ask for permission! The tiger does not ask for permission! The high seas. Go on to the high seas to discover yourself and battle with the creator, then you'll know what true freedom is. Why should you allow yourself to be content with the freedom, the supposed freedom, of other men? If you are a weak man, a man without form, I very well understand this, but if you consider yourself strong, shame, shame on you, for you are not strong! I don't wish to go on too long about weak men, men without form, but let them stand as a testament to why power requires might and why freedom isn't free.

    Why then is freedom, the word only, so important and central in the liberal paradigm? Well, allow me to explain why by pondering about what freedom means within the constraints of the liberal and humanist order. What is for instance freedom of expression, what does this term mean in a context where only language that is publicly neutered is available because other forms of language are "offensive"? What free man crumbles under the weight of words? What free man allows words to define his destiny? No real man allows this. How can any man that has any pride allow some other man to get into his head to such an extent that he breaks down emotionally? This is nothing but a joke of a man, the man without form and feature that has been and is promoted by the humanist axiom. What a shameful world we truly live in. Freedom is surely the ability to not allow the words, and attempted usurpation by other men to get you to adhere to their rule? If not, then there is no such thing as freedom. But allow me as well to dash that so-called economic freedom. Of course there's no such thing as real freedom and a real market, but I am standing in a slightly positive relation to these forces, for they will merely hasten the closure of this latest cosmic cycle, the Kali Yuga.

    I believe that most people, most men, don't want freedom: most men want comfort and most of those men don't mind exchanging their entire destiny and their entire life if that means for them more comfort and security from the laws of nature, which has seemingly been the entire purpose of the materialist enterprise: to protect man from the creation, the laws of the creation. This is supposedly civilized? Only men of the very distant past knew true civilizations, and those men built their civilizations on true freedom.

    So again allow me to answer that initial question: what is true freedom? True freedom more than anything else is the knowledge that tomorrow is the future and the future is my destiny and mine alone. This is the essence of true freedom, the essence of the apex, the superior, shaped by the forces of deep time. The tiger, the eagle, the apex is free.

Reginald Drax – October 10, 2025.