Thiago Carvalho on Nostr: "We Americans tend to think that freedom is a matter of things being cleared away, ...

"We Americans tend to think that freedom is a matter of things being cleared away, and that capitalism does that work for us. It is a trap to believe in this,” he writes. “Freedom is not an absence but a presence, a life in which we choose multiple commitments and realize combinations of them in the world.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/timothy-snyder-american-fascism-under-trump