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RE: Dog walk diaries: thoughts on triggers
What use is the privilege of "free" speech, when men have little to no capacity for critical thinking? What Kierkegaard observed one hundred years prior continues today, and I suspect has always been the reality of the human race. There are those who think, and there are those who follow. Capacity to think is a rare trait in the human species, and those who can harness their thoughts govern those who require others to think for them.
Speech is aleays free, it is just not without consequence. Capacity to think is retarded by the consumption of other's thoughts. People spend so much time consuming the developed ideas of others tbey no longer have a pipeline of their own. Many live the thoughts of their betters without ever reaching a conclusion themselves.