Re: Technology and loss of freedom

[Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>]

Timothy C. May wrote:
> At 8:20 PM -0600 3/17/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> >With the advent of technology, the balance of perceived social needs and
> >government capabilities shifted radically, and it shifted away from the
> >great freedoms of the past. The public perception of freedom now is that
> >freedom is inherently dangerous and is a threat to the public itself.
 
> What are these "great freedoms of the past"? Look to history.

  'Freedom' has always been buggered by the 'Great Exception'. The GE
generally rests on a foundation related to denying individuals the right
to 'abuse' that freedom.
  Of course, the definition of abuse has always followed a course that
might be compared to a mathematical relationship between the position of 
ladies hemlines and the number of denominations in the 'current' One
True Religion.

  Freedom exists not so much in terms of the current/individual
definition of freedom, but in the caliber of the weapon with which
one defends their own definition of freedom.
-- 
Toto
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