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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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Prosocialise Foundation 1y ago

To avoid political debate, the key is to turn the discussion to fundamental human needs. These needs include freedom and privacy, this can be demonstrated scientifically. Also, talking about needs takes us straight to the point of the matter: human beings and the provision of what we need to thrive.

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