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A Sermon Against the Gospel of Fear - A Last Wire Official Rant.
Fear is the oldest political currency in history.

The Last Wire

It sells obedience. Rewards conformity. And convinces people to surrender freedom for the promise of safety.

Every generation believes its fears are unique. Most are not.

In A Sermon Against the Gospel of Fear, I examine how fear became one of the most powerful forces shaping politics, media, institutions, and everyday life. The article asks a simple but uncomfortable question:

When pressure rises, do we remain citizens who govern ourselves—or do we become subjects of our own anxieties?

This is not an argument for ignoring danger.

It is an argument against allowing fear to become the organizing principle of a free society.

Read the full rant at The Last Wire

What poses the greater risk to freedom: the dangers we face, or the fear that persuades us to abandon our principles in response to them?


"The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement." — Karl Popper

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." — Frederic Bastiat

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