Summary of threats to liberty:
- Results of overpopulation: reduced resources.
- Technology and drugs.
- Maintaining authority by persuasion (e.g. advertising, drugs, terrorism).
- Subtle propaganda as opposed to the authoritye totalitarian countries.
Motivation: lust for power. Answer: value of freedom based on the individual. Decentralization. Give back to the voter a sense of direct power. Small electorates. (Jefferson's hundreds referenced indirectly!) Question: is freedom necessary? Creative, innovative life of man is impossible without freedom. Soviet counterexample: scientists are the only ones who are 'free' with an oligarchy on top.
Poster Comment:
- Transcript here
- Background on the liberal "Fund for the Republic" here. McCarthyists found it unamerican.
- Brave New World Revisited (similar to or the essays themselves) Enemies of Freedom essays.