+- Edward Snowden -- 739d ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Read just the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (free via Project Gutenberg etc) and tell me that he | | didn't have his finger precisely on the pulse — in the 1850s — of the root cause of the authoritarian war for | | majoritarian supremacy that we're witnessing today. Censorship, the compelled worship of an ever-shifting orthodoxy, | | the construction and desecration of idols before the temple of consensus— it's all the same thing, arising from the | | same source, and awaiting a similar solution. In times of trouble, we should look more to our history. | | | | Read your Mill, brothers. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1 reply] ---+Read just the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (free via Project Gutenberg etc) and tell me that he didn't have his finger precisely on the pulse — in the 1850s — of the root cause of the authoritarian war for majoritarian supremacy that we're witnessing today. Censorship, the compelled worship of an ever-shifting orthodoxy, the construction and desecration of idols before the temple of consensus— it's all the same thing, arising from the same source, and awaiting a similar solution. In times of trouble, we should look more to our history. Read your Mill, brothers.
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Read just the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (free via Project Gutenberg etc) and tell me thathe didn't have his finger precisely on the pulse — in the 1850s — of the root cause of the authoritarian war formajoritarian supremacy that we're witnessing today. Censorship, the compelled worship of an ever-shiftingorthodoxy, the construction and desecration of idols before the temple of consensus— it's all the same thing,arising from the same source, and awaiting a similar solution. In times of trouble, we should look more to ourhistory.Read your Mill, brothers.