In my point of view, freedom is limited and it depends on what you think about freedom. Based on Charon stated in chapter 5, "it is critical to recognize that a great deal of what we call freedom involves thinking." Actually, it's very important on how and what people are thinking. As we are born, we aren't able to determine what country we are in, what kind of family we have, what kind of culture we would be in, and so on. We were basically under the control of the social group as we grew up, and that could be applied for anyone's life, including mine. My life was very simple like everyone had, I was controlled by my parents until now because of Chinese traditions. Before I immigrated here, in China, we had to enroll in 9 years of education, but in America, we have to finish 12 years of education. No matter where we are, people are controlled by socialization and social structure. However, we had freedom, but limited.
I learned from the story of Henry David form Charon's textbook, Henry was in jail but he still thought he was free. All in all, freedom was limited, because people want freedom, and they also want to be protected. We don't want to see people commit crimes and still be free. To be more fair, we have laws to control our actions. Someone says if you can't change the world, then change your attitude or thinking. We don't have the abilities to change this world, then we should follow the laws, social structures, or socialization then we would find freedom.
As we discussed class structure in previous chapters, we have working, middle and high classes in our society. However, nowadays inequality is getting worse and rich people getting richer, and poor people are getting poorer. The middle class is becoming less and less stable which results in closely turning into the working class level. Inequality effects people's life and even more economically. It keeps rich people on the top, and poor people at the low social structure.
I learned from the story of Henry David form Charon's textbook, Henry was in jail but he still thought he was free. All in all, freedom was limited, because people want freedom, and they also want to be protected. We don't want to see people commit crimes and still be free. To be more fair, we have laws to control our actions. Someone says if you can't change the world, then change your attitude or thinking. We don't have the abilities to change this world, then we should follow the laws, social structures, or socialization then we would find freedom.
As we discussed class structure in previous chapters, we have working, middle and high classes in our society. However, nowadays inequality is getting worse and rich people getting richer, and poor people are getting poorer. The middle class is becoming less and less stable which results in closely turning into the working class level. Inequality effects people's life and even more economically. It keeps rich people on the top, and poor people at the low social structure.
