Freedom from what? Freedom for whom? Freedom to drop napalm on civilians and call it "liberation"?
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The word "freedom" has been doing enormous political labor in America for a very long time and it is exhausted.
Freedom from what? Freedom for whom?
Freedom to drop napalm on civilians and call it "liberation"?
Freedom to overthrow a democratically elected government and call it "stability"?
Freedom to run a global network of military bases in every region on earth and call it "defense"?
These are not perversions of the word.
This is the word as it has functioned in American political life for generations.
And the citizens who use it genuinely believe in it.
That is the important part.
They are not lying when they say it. They have been given a version of "freedom" that is entirely compatible with empire because it was designed that way.
Freedom that begins at their border and ends there.
Freedom that applies to them and is delivered to others by force, whether the others requested it or not.
Freedom as the brand name on the product.
Not as a description of the thing inside the box.
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:50
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