Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : Arelor
From : Snobsoft
Date : Tue May 06 2025 03:18 am
Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Arelor to Boraxman on Mon May 05 2025 09:06 am
> I think this is a matter of the
> point
> of view as who gets to be free under
> which circumsptances.
>
> In post 1950's fascist Spain, people
> were de-facto more free than they
> are
> today - nobody was required to ask
> permission to have horses and hens,
> you
> weren't supposed to report
> everything
> you do as you are today - but only
> if
> you were, shall we say,
> Spanish-normative.
>
> Which basically means if you were a
> working heterosexual non-communist
> Spaniard you were good to go and the
> only right you missed was
> critizising
> the Party in the open. Lacking the
> power to citizise Franco in the open
> is
> a big one for me, but I would trade
> the
> right to critizise the government
> for
> the right not to be accountable for
> every decision I take in my life in
> a
> heartbeat. If I were gay I would
> think different.
That is a very smart post from you. It shows how important it is to know that there are different perspectives, not just the one and only truth. Unfortunately, not many people are able to imagine other viewpoints and thus develop understanding accordingly.
