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The Book Club: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with Sen. Ted Cruz

The Book Club

CHAPTER

What Is Freedom?

The parallels to what we have been living through, even though this was written now almost 100 years ago, 90 years ago, are eerie. The idea of sexual liberation was that you'll be more free. Break out of these bonds of monogamy and not having sex before marriage and break free of that. Well, this question of freedom, what is freedom? It's the same thing as saying 'I'm going to vote for Obama because I think he's a good guy' And then when they turn him into an angry young man who can't control his anger... You know how toddlers make themselves physically ill by running around grabbing flowers or something like that? They're trained from their youth to

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