I would suggest it is terrorism, not freedom!
Democracy as Spectacle: The Messianic Compulsions of the US Republic
Most notably, as recently reported in the Washington Post, it is burrowing deeper into our collective conscious by granting Top Secret Security Clearance to 800,000 people, at least that we know of. This would be almost funny if we were talking about some other country. The fact that we now require nearly a million people to be daily engaged in the top secret realms of state security would have been a preposterous notion only 15 years ago. 25 years ago it would have been scoffed at as some kind of bizarre Soviet Excess of Evil Empire. As Gide suggested, freedom has scared us out of our wits, paralyzed us. We no longer know what to do with it.
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