8 April

Notice how we tend to see freedom as freedom *from* something? As if we are more free if we have fewer connections, rather than more. It’s the paradox of freedom, we are usually more free the *more* we form relationships with other people and things. A walking stick gives freedom, it doesn’t take it away. If you have a network of friends and colleagues, your life will usually be easier. Etc. The great lie of modern politics is that freedom is about individuals, not the relationships they form to give them freedom. Even tax is a freedom, without it try driving on a road. You can reach a tipping point where you’re too connected, too committed to other things. But I think that happens when the connections weren’t genuine relationships, not mutually beneficial.