Reddit reviews Necromancer (Childe Cycle)

Liked this piece a lot.

>Dependent children tend to seek freedom without responsibility; independent adults embrace both.

Democrats want people without freedom or responsibility, for this guarantees their rule. Obama never takes personal responsibility, and as the leader of the free world sets the example of a dependent child.

>Such moments of seeming freedom were portrayed as acts of benevolence by the slaveholders, but were in fact deployed as “safety-valves, to carry off the rebellious spirit of enslaved humanity.” The slaveholders sought to sink their captives in depravity, rather than offer them a respite from slavery:

Douglas here reminds me of Necromancer in the Childe Cycle by Gordon R. Dickson in which a future oppressive society permits stamping protests as a safety valve. This notion that the state doles out to you little pieces of liberty is fundamentally abhorrent, and like taxation, is an inversion of the reality in which one should expect to be free, and any intrusion of government into this state viewed as tyranny.

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