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You should watch "The Trap" by Adam Curtis. Basically what you are describing is called Negative Liberty and it is a very particular narrow and limiting type of
by petermcneeley 8y ago
You should watch "The Trap" by Adam Curtis. Basically what you are describing is called Negative Liberty and it is a very particular narrow and limiting type of freedom.
https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-trap/ https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-trap/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty
- TomMarius 8y agoThat isn't what I meant. I wanted to say that I feel like people are focusing on democracy for the sake of having democracy instead of using it as just one tool to achieve maximum freedom like it was supposed to.
- petermcneeley 8y agoYes but "achieve maximum freedom" is a negative liberty concept. Positive liberty is more like parentalism which limits freedom to achieve self-mastery.
- TomMarius 8y agoFor this reason I specifically said "while having a positive society". Not that I don't agree (or disagree) but I don't want to argue about this at all. The point is that we have democracy instead of absolutism to have freedom, not to have democracy.