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I blame the education system, the government and other authoritarian institutions which instill in young people weakness and a constant need to appeal to author

I blame the education system, the government and other authoritarian institutions which instill in young people weakness and a constant need to appeal to authority. Young people seems to believe freedom is a solved problem - something you memorised in history class - and are blind to the evil authoritarian regimes of our times (like China, North Korea, Cuba): they don't realise we're one step away from those realities and edging closer every day.

oblio 6y ago
> China, North Korea, Cuba Freedom is not a solved problem, but your examples don't help your cause as much as you think. None of those countries ever had anything close to a working democracy. Or a large middle class, for that matter. And in the developed democracies another lesson has been forgotten: prosperity beats freedom/liberty. Empty bellies don't care how they get filled, be it from a dictator's hand or from a well paid job in a market economy functioning under the rule of law of a democracy. That's what's eroding democracy. The hollowing out of the middle class. Not "freeze peach", though that part having issues isn't helping either.