Years ago, privacy was a major component of FREEDOM. A free man enjoyed privacy; a slave or prisoner did not. Today, we are urged to renounce our privacy, but why?
I view personal "freeness" as a linear spectrum where one end is marked "slave/prisoner" and the other is marked "free".
Each step we take in restricting or expanding personal sovereignty, equals a step toward either freedom or slavery.
Privacy, independence, and self-determination are all hallmarks of a free man. When we reduce any of these, we walk toward slavery.
When I hear someone say, "There oughta be a law against (fill in the blank)." I usually wonder what it is about slavery that they like so much.
What about you? Where do you stand on the Freedom Spectrum? Closer to slavery, or closer to freedom?
On the larger scale, remember this: Tyrannical governments ALWAYS reduce citizen's privacy, while simultaneously increasing governmental secrecy. Where has this occurred, recently?
2007-03-08
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