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What's so bad about freedom that people let it go, despite all the benefits it brings them? Is it laziness, or something deeper than that?
Think about what freedom requires. Freedom requires the responsibility to think. It requires of a person the responsibility to make choices.
This is frankly what so many dread. Many people do want choices, but they don't necessarily want the responsibility that goes along with making a choice.
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Freedom requires thought. It requires valuing, the rational sort of valuing that originates in thought.
Throughout history, this has been too much for most people, including most average people. This probably explains why freedom has always been the exception, has always been abandoned in the end, and -- at present, in America -- is floundering and waning.
The election of a despicable incompetent like Barack Obama in a land whose Constitution was written by gigantic champions of individual rights is a particular low point in the course of human history. This could never have happened in a nation that had not already lost its way.
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