Today is the first day of our Governor's (Indiana) 'Stay-At-Home' order due to the coronavirus pandemic. After a flurry of activity locally, we as a state now collectively sit in one place (at least that's theory). This invocation, of course, runs counter to our psyche. While there is some rush that comes from the change, I'm guessing it wouldn't be long before it feels like something else.
We don't like to be told what to do.
We don't like to have to stop.
We call the absence of such things freedom.
And yet, despite our misgivings, there is something baked into this that we intuitively know IS about our freedom. In other words, we can't have complete freedom personally if we can't have it collectively. My choices affect your freedom, as yours do mine. So, when the circumstances converge in such a unique way as this (at least for us—many around the world suffer lack of freedoms all the time), we basically all have to agree that we will set aside some of our personal freedoms for the sake of our collective freedom (even if that still is mostly self-serving...so we can get back to having our own freedom again).
How will we use this twist on our sense of freedom? What will it teach us? Personally? More importantly, collectively?
