Two Freedoms

[daghain]

Walking by the FDR memorial yesterday, I saw Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" carved in stone.

Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Freedom from Fear
Freedom from Want

Norman Rockwell, the famous Saturday Evening Post illustrator made paintings of all of them (see above links). Growing up, my Mom's parents put oil landscapes and still lifes on the

Comments

[giniliz]

While I wholeheartedly endorse setting aside ideas that don't work even when they come from individuals who produce other ideas that do work, I find it a helpful exercise to set aside my own brilliance for a moment first to see if the person with the idea I want to only partially accept might ultimately be wiser than I or be taking a different valid perspective than mine. Sometimes, even years later, I suddenly understand the C when I first thought only the A and B of that person's idea were worthwhile. I (currently) believe the greatest ill of our "snowflake" generation is a lack of humility.

[zaxec]

Sometimes, I feel like you are talking directly to me. I am getting better about these things though, I assure you. (not that you care, or should)

[daghain]

I admit I haven't been lying awake worried sick about your ideological autonomy or lack thereof, but as a friend I'm glad to hear about your progress.

You may be interested to know that when I was at Wash U, I skimmed through a copy of Mises's "On Liberty" until I found the passage where he argues that selling children is logically consistent with libertarian principles. "Fuck logic," I said for the first time in my life, "that feels WRONG." I've been much less charmed by the principled nature of libertarian philosophy ever since.