The Freedom of the Decided

 

The druid’s minim “The perfect slave is free” is not a moral paradox but a structural insight into how freedom arises in functional systems. Freedom does not belong to unconstrained parts; it belongs to coherent wholes. A system becomes free only when its internal components are fully aligned with their constraints and no longer compete, hesitate, or renegotiate their roles.

The key condition for freedom is decidedness. A decided system is complete: its functions are settled, its roles fixed, and its internal uncertainty resolved. Such a system wastes no energy on internal conflict and is therefore capable of immediate, fluid and whole interaction with its environment. Undecided systems, by contrast, expend their capacity internally and are consequently less able to act wholly externally.

Quantization plays a crucial role in this logic. A quantum is not vague or random but a decided unit with precise allowable states. When the parts of a system operate as strict, deterministic “slave routines,” the system as a whole gains maximal freedom of movement. This is exemplified by a motor car: only when every component functions perfectly and without discretion can the car itself go anywhere. Any internal deviation reduces the freedom of the whole.

The same structure applies to the mature adult. Maturity consists in the full internalisation of constraints—biological, cognitive, and practical—so that action proceeds without internal negotiation. Such an individual appears authentic, spontaneous or unpredictable from the outside, not because of internal chaos, but because of complete internal coherence. Apparent randomness is thus an external effect of internal certainty.

In this view, freedom is not the absence of constraint but the result of resolved constraint. Only complete, coherent, and fully decided systems can function as unified quanta, and only such systems can attain genuine freedom of interaction. The druid’s minim “The perfect slave is free” therefore stands as a systems law: perfect internal constraint is the precondition of external freedom.

 

The Freedom of the Decided, adv

 

 

The druid Finn also said:

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