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34. I don't know

Sat Feb 28, 2026, 10:11 PM

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Freedom is equally undefinable and equally universally unattainable.

The examples of Europe do not arbitrarily apply since Europe is where colonialism sprang from. To borrow from Parke Godwin in The Snake Oil Wars “people like you, Helm, can never kneel to the cross without your knee on someone’s neck”. For far too many freedom has to come at someone else’s expense. The power holders do not relinquish power easily or willingly. The power seekers are too often ready to spill blood without being able to control it and the charlatan always awaits. Sometimes it goes well albeit never smoothly. Too often it goes poorly and the way disintegrates into chaos.

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