Monday, May 31, 2021
Freedom of the Mind
Allan Bloom (1930-1992), The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), p. 249:
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Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.Hat tip: Rod Dreher.
