Freedom and Chance

Neitzsche said that "No victor believes in chance." 

Neither does any truly free people. 

Those who earn their freedom deeply understand how freedom works. 

They know exactly why they are free. 

If the people wonder, or if they are confused, frustrated or upset with their nation or its leaders, they don't fully understand the principles of freedom. 

Those who understand them set out to implement them, and they know exactly what to do. 

Those who are unsure get caught up in frustration and blame. 

Thus, if we are frustrated, it is time to study freedom more deeply. 

Until we know, with well-informed conviction, our actions will fail.

This is the reality behind the poem by William Yeats Butler:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold...

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.