John Schinnerer
1 min readSep 11, 2020

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The Polyface Farm "clearing the air" post puts forward an all-purpose CYA disclaimer that ends with "...meant to stimulate unorthodox thinking especially in the arena of preserving liberty."

The 'liberty' referred to here is the USA's particular form of hyper-individualistic 'liberty' - which is so implicit in our culture that (almost) nobody notices how implicit it is.

It most often means the 'liberty' of a given individual to do whatever they want, regardless of effect or consequences for anyone else.

Whenever someone starts invoking 'liberty', ask them, "for whom, when?" And refuse to let them dodge that question.

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John Schinnerer
John Schinnerer

Written by John Schinnerer

A generalist in a hyper-specialized society. "How we do what we do is who we are becoming." - Humberto Maturana

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