From: John Beamish 

When I went back to U (night school) to get my degree, the first course I
took was a Humanities ("Freedom and the Individual").  It was a
*fabulous* course.  We started with free will, Plato and Greek notions of
political freedom; we moved into politics and political philosophy
(including a lecture about Kennedy's assassination that left you reeling at
the co-incidences and possible interpretations); and we concluded with a
couple of lectures about contemporary discussions of freedom in a
"global village" context.

I was getting pretty bummed out by the opening of my eyes to the decreasing
freedom I thought I had.  I went to the prof, had a very good chat with him
and stuck it out to the end.  I haven't been able to look at
"freedom" in a democracy or a totalitarian system (and there is
*precious* *little* to distinguish between them) in the same way since.

On Sun, 7 May 2000 09:36:42 -0500, Bill Lucy  wrote:

>This could be a great thread on its own. After reading some things recently
and
>hearing a radio program, I'm beginning to have my doubts.

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