28 May

We tend to think freedom is the opposite of slavery. If you actually look at what happened though, in history, that bondage of one person to another didn't lift to give us freedom. We enormously expanded and diversified that bondage, and made it more mutual. It's what makes us free, to be mutually obligated to each other. You and the butcher, banker, supermarket, school, tech company, electricity supplier etc. etc. are all mutually bonded to each other now. It's what creates peace. Libertarians don't get this, they think freedom is being free from all bonds.