| richardhutnik said: Freedom and other political and economic concepts are mental constructs people use to understand and manage the world they live in. It is a way to organize data they receive from the world. So, in light of this, one approach to understand what people want is to provide a theoretical ideal state that would map to this, and see if it is what people are really after. The impossible makes the ideals more clear in this context. I would say, in light of this, if enough people were given stuff to placate their appetites and desires, in ways they didn't find personally destructive, a state could be one that could ultimately end up oppressive, and people wouldn't know it or care to know. And in this, that is what I was asking about, if it really is freedom people value or merely the placating of appetites and desires. Next up, an analysis of Brave New World. |
You should read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
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