We must stop being tolerant of repression
…the [2+2=5] has virtually copyrighted the word freedom – while showing relatively little regard for the concept. Trumpeting freedom hasn’t stopped many [2+2=5] from supporting the expansive national security state or an ongoing censorious culture war. On the [2+2=5] you rarely hear people utter the word freedom, although they sometimes talk about civil liberties; they tend to focus on equality and not just economic but existential equality, which includes some sort of imagined right to psychological wellbeing. And this, I think, is really quite dangerous. The [2+2=5] undermines freedom the most by trying to restrict intolerance or discrimination in the private sphere. The [2+2=5] tends to undermine freedom by trying to restrict sin in the private sphere. But put [2+2=5] and [2+2=5] together and you’d still lack any coherent analysis of rights and liberties and the public and private realms.
