Tuesday, October 05, 2004

You can't increase freedom politically

Julie Watner wrote a wonderful little essay exactly ten years ago called "A Definition of Freedom," which defined freedom brilliantly and suggested a fine way to implement it in our time. In part, Julie wrote:
"...I believe the most effective way to spread the freedom idea is to educate ourselves and raise our children to be honest, knowledgeable, confident, responsible lovers of freedom -- to light a single candle. If each one of us lights another candle, and each of those follows suit, the freedom ideas will grow from a quiet bonfine to a WILDFIRE engulfing everything in its path."
I recommend this essay to anyone interested in furthering freedom.

2 Comments:

At 4:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Re freedom through knowledge: I read a great quote a couple of months ago. To paraphrase: Education is not the filling of a static vessel, rather it is a match that lights a bonfire! Dovetails in kinda nicely, donctha thunk? (Aussie version of a Kiwi aksent-sic)regards Greg Fisher, Sydney, Australia

 
At 7:39 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Julie Watner's not an anarchist... she's an arsonist!

 

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