My week in San Francisco is mixed with all sorts of extreme feelings – excitement, pleasure, curiosity, fear, moment of embarrassment, moment of true fellowship, fun, challenging, frustration of small failures and delightedness of small successes, annoyance, hilarious, awe, worship, feeling good and bad about myself, disagreement, appreciation… I could keep going on with this list of feelings – it’s overwhelming in general.
On Friday night, when we were having the last dinner on boat, someone brought up the topic of freedom. What is the true freedom? Freedom has little to do with money… People as rich as Bill Gates has plenty of choices in their life, which is not freedom in my eyes. Freedom takes courage and intelligence, people who are lack of either or both would usually live under the shelter of a religion or tradition, giving up their privilege to think and see and judge for themselves. Freedom could be dangerous when combined with pure self-serving. A person who is an independent thinker (who don’t give shit to any kinds of propagandas) and is daring to do anything surely holds freedom in his mind and in his action, but his extreme selfishness on getting whatever he wants would at the same time deprive freedoms of many other people along his way of climbing up in the society.
In other words, freedom itself should be opened to the rest of the world, there is no true freedom when it’s only for individuals.
This is what we hold in common in Canonical, we love freedom, and our job is to share it with other freedom lovers. : )
