We’re not fucked, we just have a big job ahead of us. There are millions of us, and few of them. The time to remove them from power has long since past.
I think it underlines how freedom is always inherently a global project, a genuine embrace of freedom as a value requires a humanist embrace of the totality of people who could be bestowed freedom.
It is not enough to just try to get it right in one place, the powers against genuine freedom are too great and the seductiveness of “well I got mine” is too dangerous to our moral integrity, we must seek solidarity with one another from the start or else we will inveitably be encapsulated deeper and deeper in layers of oppression and control whether it is panoptic and pyschological or directly physical in nature.
We’re not fucked, we just have a big job ahead of us. There are millions of us, and few of them. The time to remove them from power has long since past.
I think it underlines how freedom is always inherently a global project, a genuine embrace of freedom as a value requires a humanist embrace of the totality of people who could be bestowed freedom.
It is not enough to just try to get it right in one place, the powers against genuine freedom are too great and the seductiveness of “well I got mine” is too dangerous to our moral integrity, we must seek solidarity with one another from the start or else we will inveitably be encapsulated deeper and deeper in layers of oppression and control whether it is panoptic and pyschological or directly physical in nature.