Unlearning 2

The brain has an ability to learn and to adapt to demands. That is good but also a difficulty. Once the brain has created a routine, it is so much easier to follow the routine than to do something new. As the external world is in constant change, we would need a new kind of brain which is more flexible and less emotionally stuck in its old routines and patterns.
You could say that the external world should change first. The brain is just a mirror of external situations, and as long as there is oppression, rudeness and hostility in the world it is good to have brains which react with disgust and even pain.
And certainly, we should change the external world in order to eliminate oppression and discrimination. One problem is that the negative ideas are born anew with every new generation. So the problem can not be solved once and for all. It has to be solved for every new individual that is born. And there is quite a number of those.
But to eliminate oppression is also a brain problem. It is not an external, political or psychological problem. The difference between the dictator and the democratic leader is in the brain.
Of course, the brain is part of an external reality. The internal reality is mind. The brain is a marvellous instrument in the hands of the mind (does the mind have hands!?) but a disastrous instrument when used for creating disaster.

The liberator 2

The power of mind is normally used to suppress the power of mind. We are born that way, and often family and society supports this suppression.
The extreme opposite, a totally free and open mind is spontaneously quite difficult to endure for most individuals. It seems to have no stable points, nothing to relate to and nothing to refer to.
We can organise our life in many different ways, but if we choose one way we should stick to that. So we get conventions which are good in practical situations, but not good in any absolute meaning. These conventions can block access to the full truth, in particular if they contain ideas about ideologies or religious dogmas which can not be questioned.
Conventions are no block to total reality if everything can be questioned, and if we see the conventions as just temporary conventions and nothing more.
For mind itself it is difficult to look through its own limitations. We try to learn facts, rather than learn to question every observation. This difficulty is just a transitory stage, happily.
If we open mind and see that it can be used not only for routine operations about daily habits and material support, we find a state of harmony which is stronger and safer than any good feelings we might have with a mind blocked in suppression.
Then the power of mind will be used by mind to explore the full power of mind. For the individual this can be experienced as being born again.
The liberation of mind is a task for every individual. Others can not do it for us, but others can open our eyes and others can help remove disturbing external factors like dictators and irritating people.

All aspects considered 2

To favor freedom before oppression is not a matter of political conviction but of scope of knowledge. The more we know the more we accept freedom.
Oppression can be based on raw violence. That is a very primitive situation.
Oppression can also be based on the idea of discipline - there must be some structure to avoid anarchy.
This situation is intermediary, between the most primitive oppression and the evolved stage of full knowledge and thus full freedom.
Freedom is complicated idea as it involves all citizens in a nation. Any minority which advocates violence is a problem.
Traditionally this was a problem that could not be solved. It was impossible to reach all citizens with a serious analysis and exchange of experiences and knowledge.
But it is not impossible any more. Thanks to better education, better media and Internet knowledge increases fast.
It is very good. It means that the politicians of tomorrow will rest on knowledge and ideals among their voters, and not on bias and promises of subsidies, tax reductions and the like.