It was, of course, impossible to simply erase a concept - such things are not necessary, are intolerable in the world of propaganda. One needs to jellify the words into having no comfortable meaning. That way, they can be brought forth now and again when necessary to salt their original meanings into the dialogue, but carefully-carefully.
Liberty is such a word. We insist that we Americans are passionate defenders of liberty; but of course, we are no such thing. We can barely distinguish between frank tyranny and ordered liberty. What we so aggressively demand in the name for liberty, is the access to those things that allow us to conform in keeping with our station. Such things as welcoming Condoleeza Rice into the Augusta Golf Club, that is put forth as progress, somehow meriting the approval of the ghosts of civil rights leaders. Any Mercedes dealership that would turn away Dexter King or another King child would be roundly booed. In one's station, one has the right to purchase the symbols of it - that is Liberty. And so, you see - it is a comfortable elitism, like carrying the SS dagger. That is Liberty, in the sense we convey the new word order.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
On Liberty
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