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Monday, November 14, 2022

On losing freedom

When people are comfortable they usually tolerate things even if it means losing a little bit  of freedom. Of course, freedom is taken away little by little, so by the time you lose most of it, you won't be able to do anything else but tolerate it since you'd have lost any power to do  anything else. For example....


          Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

                - Edward Snowden








1 comment:

  1. The worse part is that often government justifies our loss of freedom with the need for more safety. Before 9/11 we didn't have to go through a huge security line an almost get strip-searched to be able to board a plane.

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