[Mmmike]

For a new birth of freedom to take place, the Fall will have to be severe enough that lots of people start to question what they've always wanted to be true or believed to be true. Otherwise the same widespread conceptual errors that have been self-compounding for a long time will continue to get worse, and we will find no solution to our everyday public problems.

So then, how do we come to terms with the conceptual errors of our times? One way might be to try to understand how and where freedom fits into the hierarchy of the good, avoiding the widespread abuse of the word "freedom" (to the point of its becoming an anti-concept) and asking how freedom relates to other good things, what gives it substance, and what makes it good? Hopefully this can help us differentiate genuine freedom from the perilous idolatry of the Autonomous Self, and to recognize the contradictions in the latter that have us tied up in knots in the "real world" while the culture is enslaved to unseen manipulators.

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For a new birth of freedom to take place, the Fall will have to be severe enough that lots of people start to question what they've always wanted to be true or believed to be true.

The "free ride" will be over either way. A family can live in a mansion and live the good life while scamming credit card debt (pay off one with the other) until the bills come due and the credit line is cut off. Then it all comes crashing down and it's all gone except the pain. Wait until DC politicians then try to steal money from IRAs and bank accounts - then even the Democrat enablers will feel the pinch and pain.