From: Bill Lucy 

In article ,
rgparker{at}west.net says...
MPG.1380e99b1ff64b01989855{at}news.barkto.com>, note these cogitations
> from blucy{at}mediaone.net Bill Lucy:
> > What I found interesting was that the author states the same position I've
been
> > taking -- that's it's easy to dismiss authoritarianism when you feel
"free".
>
> I thought the main point was that the people who have strong
> totalitarian tendencies want to break into the mind and reorder it to
> accept their perfect world order.
>
> The way to get people to give up on real freedom is to confuse them
> about what the term means. A very good technique for obliterating the
> knowledge of a concept is to take the words that refer to that concept
> and create new meanings for those words and promote those meanings.

So you would agree that we are not free?

Help me out here, Randall. You seem to be saying two things -- one is that
our government allows us to be free, but also that government (acting
through schools) is not (by redefining terms).



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