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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (13692)	1/19/2002 7:21:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

<when market relations and commercial consumer attitude are colonizing one aspect of our lives after another, we celebrate it as a victory of "freedom". How is that possible? > Freedom is being in a volitional state. Mullahs, democracy, and dictatorship do NOT offer freedom. They are all in the same basket of enslaving individuals to the state; they control people in all sorts of ways which are not protection of third parties. They take money from some people and give it to others. They aren't about freedom. Materialism is an option for people to choose if they are free to. Many people choose that. Materialism doesn't colonize our lives. We choose it. Democracies circumscribe our choices and cannot be said to offer freedom, despite Americans being confused about their situation and beating their chests about their freedom. They are not free. They will make the claim that they are much more free than people were in the USSR and most other places. However, a better comparison would be with what is possible rather than what is bad, which is like a sprinter comparing themselves with a one-legged person and boasting about their sprinting capacity. Mqurice

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