A Renewed Idea of Freedom
Propositions of a Way of Thinking

The growth of political, ethnical, social and environmental tension is getting more and more disastrous. This growth is inevitable as long as the dominant slogan of political aims is economic growth, instead of the expansion of people?s scope of action and a person?s opportunities to make decisions as well as freedom.
We cannot do anything against the increase of tensions until it becomes obvious to everybody that
- increase in production and consumption is not development but drift, which generates tension and destroys our world
- the main factor that makes production-consumption pressure greater is the centralization of traffic-network
- democracy itself is just and illusion, deceiving society, if officers are not responsible for their decisions, authorities are not utterly open and obliged to answer any question
- as long as planning is focussing on the future and does not allow supervising present official intentions, it prevents taking responsibility and it is only able to hide ulterior, official intentions.

Budapest, 10 November 1999
 Benyó Bertalan