People have always been like this. The Israelites begged God for a King. God just wanted them to be free to run their own lives in their tribes with the laws he gave them.
This story has always struck me. The natural order that god wants for us is freedom. Yet we continue to self sabotage ourselves. The US is a prime example. A βfreeβ nation with no income tax and supported by tariffs until the early 1900βs when everyone decided that income taxes were a good idea - essentially turning us into slaves.
We haven't been free in a while. Tracked everywhere we go, tracked on everything we look at online, tracked with all of our purchases, tracked even walking down the road by CCTV. We have a perception of freedom that is hollow in reality.
People have always been like this. The Israelites begged God for a King. God just wanted them to be free to run their own lives in their tribes with the laws he gave them.
This story has always struck me. The natural order that god wants for us is freedom. Yet we continue to self sabotage ourselves. The US is a prime example. A βfreeβ nation with no income tax and supported by tariffs until the early 1900βs when everyone decided that income taxes were a good idea - essentially turning us into slaves.
We haven't been free in a while. Tracked everywhere we go, tracked on everything we look at online, tracked with all of our purchases, tracked even walking down the road by CCTV. We have a perception of freedom that is hollow in reality.
Unless you're Jeffrey Epstein in prison, of course.