A Stout Read. Take some Antacids before hand.
The ending quote says it all:
You either believe in freedom or you don’t. It’s that simple.
Everything else is just a deadly distraction. As Orwell observed in 1984:
“All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”
Here.
Money quote:
“You either believe in freedom or you don’t. It’s that simple. Everything else is just a deadly distraction.”
Word.
