"I WILL SPEAK OF FREEDOM", PART II

I believe the human being is only free insofar as we nurture the freedom by which define ourselves. Leave it to the machinery of democracy and even thereout it will be snatched, as if a beautiful pearl from a muscle! It makes me think of the Scorpion and the Frog, the powerful fable: A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river, whereupon the frog is hesitating, fearing for his alive, afraid of being stung. The scorpion cleverly argues with the frog that if it did so, if it stung the frog they would both drown; considering the solidity of the scorpion's argument, the frog agrees. Midway across the river, to the very dismay of the frog, the scorpion indeed smites the frog with its poisonous barb, dooming them both to the death of drowning. Despairingly, the frog asks the scorpion why it would do such a thing, wherupon the scorpion replies cynically that it is indeed in its nature to do so, and that nothing else but the statement of this profound fact could be said about this behaviour. It just is what it is. What do I want to say with this? Yes, man is no more than the nature heavy enough to cram him down, as if a huge boulder, to the ground, to the sediment of his primordial origin. Democracy is a frog, human nature is a scorpion. But lo, for man may tamper with his natures, whileas, as to the extent we can know of such a thing, the scorpion may not; man can assume the posture of a scorpion, we too can weaponize its venoms as for utility in combat, and we too can deceive and stab backs and sink our ship of kindness - out of foulness. With the stength of heroism, man may become the Girtablilu of the ancient Akkadian mythos... and by that time, why do we even need the frog? The heroic Girtablilu traverses every river as he pleases! But there is one thing he does not, however, do, and that is taking his powers for granted, for he is surely a powerful synergy of man and beast, but not even a scorpian-man is without enemies; if they are not leering behind their backs as he sleeps, then surely they are nesting within the inmost dens of his own heart!