The possible deeper consequences of freedom of speech.

*Albert Einstein mentioned very clear that heart intelligence makes you intelligent. Not your brain. Before you can speak your mind there needs to be a perfect balance between your heart and mind.

It has a long history. For centuries talking out loud was a privilege. A privilege for men within a family. A privilege for the nobility, or for high-ranking people in an old social class system. Politicians, Officers of the army, Notaries, town Mayors, owners of large factories, university teachers, priests ... I will not try to name them all here. The right to speak or perhaps better; the rule that you had to remain silent is supported by various factors. Writing about these factors is again an interesting topic in itself, but in essence it's all about power. Controlling. The turnaround happened under different influences. Discussing all the factors that lead to this major change is again a topic in itself. I would like to jump over this.

Approximately after the Second World War, the process was accelerated. Spread over the last 70 years, the speed increased. Compared to hundreds of years of silence and listening, these last 70 years are particularly short. What is remarkable for me personally, that’s why I want to write about this subject, is that there is clearly no brake on this evolution. The old values and norms are becoming blurred. But they were not replaced by new ones. There are no clear agreements anymore. Freedom of speech is exploding.

The generations that still felt “comfortable” with the ethical agreement about the right to talk, this generation will soon leave our society. The old rules will disappear with the old people. It is a natural process. I think a lot about what this evolution will bring us in the longer term.(?) Our senses receive information. We must process this information. The processing of information uses energy. We live in a world with an incredible flow of information. You can try to filter this information. Physically, for example, by turning off your television, your computer, the radio, your phone, ... But you cannot turn off the voice of your colleagues, your family, your neighbors, the children on the street, the people in the store, the people in the bar, the people in your gym ...

The list above covers a large part of your daily life. All these people have an opinion and because of the freedom of speech “it seems” that we have to learn to absorb all this information. That requires a lot of energy. I’m uncertain whether humanity has the capacity to process so much information? Life goes fast. Speed of life is toxic. We are constantly trying to adjust to this speed. I consider this naive. It is widely represented that people everywhere no longer have time. People are “busy”. People behave that they cannot make much time for each other. At the same time, statistics show that loneliness is growing fast. And people are almost always tired. The information flow is too large. The speed is too high.

People are not that “busy”. We are looking for solutions to protect ourselves against all this information. Most people in a subconscious mind, some conscious. I investigate whether freedom of speech cannot be at the source of all this information. I recognize that we have instruments and technologies that were absent a few decades ago. But all these resources must be fed. Freedom of speech seems to me to have a large share in feeding all this resources. It seems to me that the right to speak, the evolution, is seriously underestimated. We have focused solely on the aspect of freedom; Discharging and spreading our emotions and thoughts. This comes with a weight. A volume. An energy.

People can try to filter the information that comes to him or her, but ethically it should also be justified that people first filter before they distribute almost everything. It is a problem.

I know I’m fighting windmills here ...