What is choice?

It is complicated.

It is very, very complicated to me.

It may be a type of freedom. It may be that, if one has complete choice, one has complete freedom. So then, it might be that, if one has no choice, one has no freedom. And there must be gradiations.

What types of choices are there? There is a choice in the body, a choice in physical controls - where you are, what you are doing, what you are seeing, etc. And there is a mental choice - what you consider, what you think about, etc.

Then things get complicated. When you consider that the body may be nothing more than chemical reactions and Pavlovian reactions to regurgitated stimuli, then mental choices become less simple. Mis-information, forced lack of information, social pressure (real or perceived), the constant hounding of ads and the like may cause mis- or ill-formed thoughts, which may lead to inappropriate or misguided actions. People feel no need to rush into the streets to protest the deaths that the US facilitates in Egypt, even thought their money is paying for those deaths. People don't know, or are misled into thinking that other scenarios are possible, that we are the good guys, that we are not "them", that we are distanced from "them", etc. Misinformed mental choices lead to misinformed physical choices.

However, the human body is also comfort-crazy. The body is reluctant to change its patterns and give up an easy lifestyle. So, again, in my life I see people (that I love deeply) exchange an easy and complacent life for a dwindling of freedoms and a lack of real information or choice of information. We choose to be mentally ignorant lest we upset our physical stability.

Damn, this shit is as complex as there are people. Where do we go from here?

We already know the answers, we know what we have to do. It will cost physical complacency and comfort, but we cannot live with this shame any longer. It's the shame of all of us now, we cannot say 'we didn't know'. We can no longer say 'we were hoodwinked' (whatever that means). We can no longer plead ignorance, victimization or weakness.

We know, we choose and we are strong. Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.