why is people's movements restricted?

It is good to see people acting on something that needs to be acted upon to. What came to my mind as I think of this topic is Al Gore’s metaphor on how people were not reactive to global warming. He said that we are like frog being slowly boiled down. Since the boiling is slow, we do not realize that we are slowly being surrounded by increasing temperature and then we would eventually die. At least Al Gore was one of those frogs that actually tried to solve that problem but this made me realize that I too was not aware of what was happening in the world. Sure I may make the excuse that I was still young when this was happening, but the fact that I should have had not been surprised of the idea still haunts me.

So why are people’s movement restricted? When I think of this, I remember on when I was still in high school and we and my team would battle the administrators to be able to do something that we want to do for a program or of the sorts. They would often win and that would restrict us to do what we want to do. All the red tape and the processes that is supposedly for helping was restricting. This can be translated to a bigger scale, which is the scale for the whole world. People would be restricted to act on their beliefs because maybe their country has a strict rule on religion, or practices. people are restricted to act because there are invisible human-ish things that prevents them even though they can physically do what they want to do. Countries even have restrictions to anything, even if it is necessary. An example is revolting on the streets (as discussed in class). Here in the Philippines, for a rally to happen they have to get a permit first and their venue must be proper which restricts the true essence of rallying and revolting. The impact is gone and any politician can just shrug those revolts easily.

People’s actions are restricted because bodies who try to find order in things sees these actions as causes of disorder. Globalization actually gave a new way of unrestricting people. For me this is the internet where everyone can post freely what they want and people can support their action if they have the same thought. And since the internet provides fast communications, people from different parts of the world can come together and act on what they think needs action. New organizations that can help people from countries with restrictions are now evident so that change is easier and less restricted.