How Can We Free Ourselves When We Don’t Realize We Are Enslaved?
Question by jeremy: How can we free ourselves when we don’t realize we are enslaved?
Johann von Goethe once wrote that “none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” No words could more accurately capture the plight of the American people. Having been indoctrinated for so long in their government-approved schools, Americans rank among the most enslaved people in history. And their denial of reality does not free them. It simply produces a psychosis marked by high levels of alcohol and other drug addiction.
Ever since the Progressive Era, American journalism mostly has been about the promotion of government. For all of the blather about the mainstream press serving as a “watchdog of government,” most journalists—and especially those who are “prestigious”—are little more than political operatives, along with being cheerleaders for the growth of the state. The alleged watchdogs of the state in reality are government’s lapdogs.
First they came for the Fourth Amendment,
and I did not speak out, because I didn’t deal drugs.
They came for the Fifth Amendment,
and I was silent because I owned no property involved in crimes
They came for the Sixth Amendment,
and I did not protest because I was innocent.
They came for the Second Amendment,
and I said nothing because I didn’t own a gun.
And then they came for the First Amendment,
and I could say nothing at all.
Yes, well this is America, the home of the FREE……
i thought we were different than other nations?
Best answer:
Answer by siddoly
I cannot think of any nation I consider truly free.
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