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So far I've piled a lot of complaints onto PPRC and the various rallies PPRC runs, but I've also been talking about something else. Whether I was writing about the need for more equitable distribution of power, or just pointing out how blatantly dishonest or misguided PPRC leaders were, I've always been trying to address what it means to be free. There's a big problem with my attempting to write about this subject: I don't know anything about freedom. I don't know what it would look like. I'd even be so bold as to say that nobody in the entire industrialized world knows what freedom is, what it feels like. We're all inhabitants of various strata inside a global spectacle-- we're the people who watch the big screen, or the little screens that are suddenly strewn everywhere, but who can't act on or change anything. [ Read more... ] previous parts: [ 1 | 2 ] | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ] [ Other stories by Douglas Lain ]
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