“ Things we get given to us, that are free”
Pretending freedom is free is the problem.
Period
Freedom, wealth, security/safety, our privacy.
Example: It’s funny how some of the most vehimently pro privacy rights folks I know came from the former East block when you had the iron curtain. Most the people I see that don’t care or see no threat, were born and raised in the West.
Take a Coptic Christian and they don’t take the idea of religious freedom for granted. They see a risk of being persecuted or oppressed, especially by Muslims as very real. But take an average American (or German/UK citizen born and raised there) and they don’t see that.
Take a woman that fled Iran or Afghanistan for her freedom, and she takes that very serious. But for most western women, born and raised, the idea of “freedom” has been degenerated to mean no more than abortion rights.
The danger is, when you have weak “people” (sorry, had to throw that pun in) today, it creates hard times.