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"Freedom" is a symbol. Like all symbols and all symbolism it means nothing to Bob and everything to Bill. It means one things to Sarah and another to Sally. On
by ukj 5y ago
"Freedom" is a symbol. Like all symbols and all symbolism it means nothing to Bob and everything to Bill. It means one things to Sarah and another to Sally.
One person's freedom is another's tyranny and vice versa.
It's all a treacherous language game.
- myfavoritedog 5y agoFreedom means different things to different people, but it's not because it's all a treacherous language game. It's because the concept is complex. The forces that underlie freedom like choice and power are not just treacherous language games. They also mean different things to different people, but they're very real at a base level. If it were all a treacherous language game, then playing would be futile. There would be nothing to talk about. To the contrary, Snowden is talking about Freedom from the context of a society that was a humanitarian, economic, and cultural disaster - Mao's China. Those failures were far from a language game.