A Tradition Called Freedom: The People, The Times, The Belief

A Tradition Called Freedom: The People, The Times, The Belief
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Michael Wing
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Few words have so many different meanings that are so incongruous with one another as the word freedom.
At first, the expectation is that freedom equates to no rules. It’s a fallacious notion, for real freedom has rules -- ones that are necessarily fair, moral, even metaphysical -- and, like all time-honored traditions, they took eons for humans to extrapolate, to create civil order out of primal chaos.
Michael Wing
Michael Wing
Editor and Writer
Michael Wing is a writer and editor based in Calgary, Canada, where he was born and educated in the arts. He writes mainly on culture, human interest, and trending news.
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