What She Said

Frogs in pots of water can be boiled to death, and citizens in the type of society this article describes can willingly hand over their freedom to despots.

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Along with this increased authoritarianism come the deeper cultural changes that have every bit as real an impact on the quality of our lives. For the costs brought by the loss of freedom cannot be fully accounted for simply by pointing to incidents of abuse or tallying up the economic damage. The deterioration in the quality of our relationships to each other is also a cost.