It ain't cool. It ain't sexy. It ain't the thing of dreams for too many citizens.
I'm not sure it even gets my juices flowing even though I'm currently championing it as the first step to genuine human advancement.
I wouldn't, of course, champion what isn't important or good. For example, I don't champion psychiatry or sobrietry. I do champion personal freedom and that's a lot more sexy and saleable. It too is central to democracy as well as other fundamental priniciples of national ethos.
Freedom sounds a lot better than equality. Every time I promote I have a sense of being like Lisa Simpson in one episode where she goes on about "equalia" - a nation of equality desired by romantic idealists and little cartoon girls.
But freedom? The good batter the status quo time and again on this issue. It's to live for and die for (something I've tried before).
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