On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 05:13:28PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Georgi Guninski writes: > | On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 08:34:14AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > | > The question here is perhaps obvious: Will you opt out and suffer > | > the consequences thereof? > | > > | > --dan > | > | Let me counter-ask only `dan': > | > | Will you exchange a walk on part in a war for > | a lead role in a cage? > | > | This is not exactly quote from Floyd's song. > > > After looking up the lyrics and reading a few pages about them, > I confess to still being confused as to what they mean and, hence, > what their question is. That is an honest answer -- I am not good > (at all) with anything that is "high art" or whatever the right > terminology here would be. > > Now, as a guess, I'll counter by asking if the lyric is simply a > light modernization of: > > I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty > to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval > architecture, in order to give their children a right to study > painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain. > -- John Adams, 2nd US President > > If the "Floyd" lyric asks whether yours is a purpose-driven life, > then my answer to "freedom, security, comfort, choose two" is freedom > and security, abjuring comfort, per se. > >
Never mind the lyrics, assume it doesn't exist. Assuming you are the same dan geer who is some boss at in-q-tel, which appears closely related to the cia, what is your definition of "freedom" -- what the usgov decides to give to the enslaved peasants?
