Freedom (sic) | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Aug. 26, 2014

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."

- Rosa Luxemburg

When the Land of the Free™ incarcerates its citizens at the rate of 1,200 per week, well, freedom sure ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.

“Freedom” is a George Michael song… and a Richie Havens song.

I walked out the front door of my apartment building… wait, did I just say “my”? It’s not my building, of course. Most of us don’t live in a place of “our own.” We shell out rent to a landlord who long ago paid off the mortgage.

We’re not free to lower our own rent just because the building is paid for. But we’re damn free to become homeless if we protest the injustice of rents, mortgages, price-gouging realtors, etc.

“Freedom” is a professional tennis team from Philadelphia.

So yeah, I walk outside, reach the corner of my block (it’s not really “my” block), and make a 90-degree turn. New York City is laid out in a grid and I’m forever walking in right angles. I’m not free to meander in unsymmetrical figure eights no matter how much I’d like to.

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