Are we ever aloud to talk incoherently; publicly, in any case? Maybe, but you must choose your words when talking in public. When in private depending on the company speech can and will cause some to shutter, others to love and many to tune out.
Public, private discourse and art need to understand that we live in a society or global market place of ideas that time and place can and will determine how one will speak. Power has much to do with this relationship.
Time and place mean development of the area you live and the laws which govern the citizens in that time and place. Development means the development of the mind and laws that; that, time and place adhere to. Not to delve into the area of behaviorism what makes one speak; Or, speak at all.
this is an oversimplification of course and I will examine societal development or civilization in the next article.
What makes one go to a protest or fight for ones rights to gather as a collective. If we are to take power as central to this, many can and will be disappointed. For example, sanctions for someone in an unequal economic relationship can and will work over time. For example, the Cuban population has been under sanctions from almost the birth of their socialist nation. The US with much more power and economic clout is the dominate power in the area and a socialist country 90 miles from their border is a catastrophe and thorn in the side the American psyche.
To see the cheers of the Americans to turmoil in Cuba, is them shifting their power for a regime more conductive to American hegemony. So, is this the real will of the people or just another power maneuver or lack of any other options.
Think about the right to self determination and sovereignty, the latter not that important anymore. So, power imbalances can and will show one what options one has and does not.
Back to free speech. What can you say and when you can say things? You cannot say anything unless one is an authority and it really comes down to “Money Talks.”
B Freethinkers 