Thursday, 11 July 2019

"The riotous counter-culturalists of the Sixties and Seventies demanded freedom. Fast forward to 2019, and that historic human instinct to be left alone in liberty has been replaced by a needy and therapeutic politics of recognition." #QotD


"The riotous counter-culturalists of the Sixties and Seventies demanded freedom. They didn’t give a damn what the ‘moral majority’ thought of them — they just wanted the moral majority to leave them alone.
    "Fast forward to 2019, and that historic human instinct to be left alone in liberty has been replaced by a needy and therapeutic politics of recognition." 

          ~ Brendan O'Neill, from his op-ed 'Why I'm Sick of Pride'
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