A2 - Sunday, May 16, 1982 - North Shore News strictly personal by Bob Hunter HAVING JUST renegotiated my mortgage, worked out a budget for the year, and faced the ordeal of figuring out my taxes, I found myself thinking the other day about freedom, and wondering if there really was such a thing. I hke John Kenneth Galbraith’s line that under capitalism, man_ exploits man, and under com- munism, it’s the opposite. I've never completely gotten over the disillusion- ment of discovering that even in a democracy, we spend most of our time locked up in one place or another. First it's school, then it's work. Schools, as everyone knows, are pnsons where we keep the httle blighters caged, force-feeding them information that might make them productive some day. From quite early in the game. | was struck by the irony of learning about how | lived in a democracy while siting there chained to a Pride survived the fall By NANCY CAMPBELL PRIDE took a fall Wed- nesday night -— rmght on top of Pat Windsor’'s car. Damage to her 1980 Buick is estimated at $2,000 and the horse which tned to leap over it, called Pride, 1s covered with cuts and bruises. Windsor was driving west along Lyan Valley road when the horse, which had bucked tts mder on the power hne trail, came charging out into the road “T think he was trying to go over me.” Windsor said “But all 1 saw was flanng nostnis and white underbelly and then WHAM he hit the car! “Thank Gsod I was ina big car I dread to think what could have happened af | was ina smaller car ~ culinary excellence’ Y2G6~ S922 {isthe Street West lartcouver. desk, faced with the threat of torture if I didn’t study. Sull, I thought. someday I'll be out of school, and then I'll be free. Poor innocent sap. I wasn't many hours into my first job before it dawned on me that | was locked up again, and worse, the place was run by a tyrant. The truth is, in the free market, nobody i1s_ free. Obviously, most of us would rather he on the beach than eam a living. We only work because we have to. ; There is simply no company in the land that doesn't have a hetrarchical power structure. However bemgn, i is a de _ ftacto dictatorship. You just cant run a business without somebody being the boss, and a boss's Windsor shghtly bruised her head in the accident, but she is concerned that there are no laws or bylaws to deal with the problem’ which could lead to a fatality in the future. “Tm not sure the city ts the place for these animals if they can't be controlled,” she said. The owner of the horse 1s not insured, and Windsor said ICBC “just laughed” when she asked if there was any way she could claim Windsor 1s) sall) secking several witnesses to the accident, and they should contact the RCMP to let her Carver eee Ce call Joy Anne Maw Keuste OM TMG cot ty) OA) pager an oozan/ide healty oo There is no freedom job is to boss. When you're’ being bossed, you're not exactly savouring freedom. The Magna Carta may have gotten the kings off our backs, but not the bosses. We may now have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but functioning moment-to-m- oment democracy ends for eight hours when you punch the time clock. I have a friend who argues that even our political freedoms are illusory. For one thing. the parliamentary system gives too much power to the party com- manding a majority in the House. But it is the party system itself where the most serious distortion occurs. Elected members of any of the main- stream parties are bound for Forever afterwards, they play lap-dog to the party, or they're out. Pohtical parties are structured to keep the group in line. In the name of solidarity, individual members have to accept the party line as law. Our elected representa- tives don't represent the people who elected them so much as they represent the party. Your average MLA or MP is a muppet. It's the backroom boys who dictate decisions, not the electorate. If all that isn't bad enough news, there's also the rather grim reality that most of us are interest slaves. My blood boils when I pay 18 per cent for a one-year vanable rate mortgage. There is only one word for what the banks are getting away with and that’s usury. And then there are those taxes that I have to pay or go to jail. 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