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Iain McGilchrist, ’We Need to Act’

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

Is Free Speech a Good Idea?

Free speech is an extraordinarily important and rather rare thing for a culture to embrace. It was bought by our previous generations, our forbears, at the price of often life and limb and suffering. And we are now handing it away, it seems to me, all prepared to. According to some people, this is not a good thing. But what i think history shows us is that a society stagnate if you don't have free speech. So it becomes less creative, it becomesa hellish to live in.

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