This ironic situation is something I’ve been thinking a bit about.
I can sum up my thoughts like this:
- I want freedom
- A few evil people want to limit my freedom in evil ways
- Some good people want freedom for themselves too and are thus willing to join a coalition for freedom to stand against the freedom limiters
- The majority of people don’t care about freedom very much
It seems today the freedom limiters have managed to manipulate the indifferent majority into supporting them and, consequently, are winning. The freedom lover coalition has not been as manipulative (probably out of a misplaced desire to appear congruent). That’s probably why we’re loosing and, like you said, we will have to start influencing the indifferent majority if we want to win.
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2023-06-26 16:52:26
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