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Jason Kuznicki - Why Is It So Hard To Think About Freedom?

The Curious Task

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The Importance of Freedom

Jason Kuznicki: For the most part our ancestors were sedentary subsistence agriculturalists who paid their taxes because they were terrified of their lords. And these are the people who gave us a lot of our cultural assumptions on a really deep level. Modernity is weird in history and most of history looked very different from it. A lot of modern political culture is simply about the difference between that traditional way of life and those that might be more fit to a more prosperous society.

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