Americans are told they're free from childhood. Pledge of allegiance. "People died for your freedom." "Most free country in the world." Repeat something enough, people believe it without testing it. That's why Americans defend gun ownership as freedom while the rest of the world sees freedom as safety from gun violence. Two incompatible definitions. One involves arming yourself. One involves not needing to. Americans learn: freedom = rights you possess (own guns, say what you want, vote occasionally). International definition: freedom = fears you don't have (kids safe at school, go to concerts without exit planning, church without threat assessment). When you're taught freedom is what you OWN, you miss that freedom is what you DON'T EXPERIENCE. Fear isn't freedom. Hypervigilance isn't freedom. Constant threat assessment isn't freedom. But Americans have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that they don't question what gives you the feeling of freedom, they just accept the definition they were given. Here's what breaks the indoctrination: leaving. When you experience actual safety elsewhere, American "freedom" reveals itself as performance. You were calling it freedom because you didn't know what freedom actually felt like. Freedom feels like: sending kids to school without fear, attending public events without exit strategies, existing in public spaces without threat monitoring. That's normal everywhere except America. But Americans think that's what freedom costs—constant vigilance in exchange for "rights." No. That's what freedom LACKING looks like. Real freedom is boring. Unremarkable. You forget about it because you're not constantly defending it or fearing losing it. American freedom is loud because it's fragile. You have to keep shouting about it to convince yourself it exists. What gives you the feeling of freedom? Not what you're told is freedom. What actually lets you exist without fear. You can't fix American systems. People in charge won't allow it. The only control you have: leave. Link in bio when you're ready. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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It feels so stuck up to say that Americans do not understand the feeling of freedom. But as an American who now lives abroad, I just do not think Americans fully grasp the idea of what it's like to be free. The ability to own a gun doesn't make you more free. It's not a freedom. The ability to be able to walk down the street without the fear of getting shot, that's freedom. The ability to send your kids to the mall and know that they're not going to have to hide from a gunman, that's freedom. Being able to send my kids to school each day and knowing that there's not going to be a school shooting, that's freedom. Being able to go to church or a concert or the grocery store, anywhere out in public and know that it's not going to end with a shooting or having to hide from a gunman, that's freedom. Anyone who's stuck in the American mentality of "I'm more free because I can own a gun" or "because I can discriminate" or "because I can say things that are not true." That's confused. That is not more freedom. I just cannot wrap my head around the idea that you think that you're free and you've been told your whole life that you're free. You've been told freedom isn't free, people had to die for your freedom. They always talk to you about how free you are and that is ingrained in you, like you believe that you're free. But I just do not understand how you can think that you're free after knowing how unsafe it is just to exist out in public. Explain that to me. Why do you think that that is freedom? To own the gun but not be safe to just be out in public? What's the deal with that? What am I missing?
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