The Importance of Free Speech

Alfred North Whitehead said that thinking allows our thoughts to die instead of us. So he was thinking about the evolution of thought in some sense from a biological perspective. Once you can think, you can represent the world abstractly and then you can produce avatars of yourself. We do that in our stories, we do that when we dream, weDo that when we imagine in images and depict a dramatic scenario playing itself out. But then we also do that in words, because we encode those images into words. And then the words can battle with one another. Our thought is dependent on our ability to speak our minds.