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Read just the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (free via Project Gutenberg etc) and tell me that he didn't have his finger precisely on the pulse — in the 1850s — of the root cause of the authoritarian war for majoritarian supremacy that we're witnessing today. Censorship, the compelled worship of an ever-shifting orthodoxy, the construction and desecration of idols before the temple of consensus— it's all the same thing, arising from the same source, and awaiting a similar solution. In times of trouble, we should look more to our history.

Read your Mill, brothers.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 1y ago 💬 1

He (and Harriot) were brilliant.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 1y ago

JSM in his autobiography admitted that Harriet (his 2nd wife) was the joint author of most of the books and articles published under his name.

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