: About Me

To such surface level conditioning as we are accustomed, freedom is a self-evident good, wholly unassailable in its worth. As is often the case when one turns to the articulation of any lofty abstraction, the mind is at first overrun with symbols and phrases that fall short in conveying a functional definition. Popular images (a battle-scarred flag on a smoky battlefield, Mel Gibson's final cry in "Braveheart") do not serve the rational attempt well, but only further cloud the common conception, which already is an unhelpful clutter of national pride and half-grasped scraps of rallying cri...