Your Brain is Not a State Facility COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

Your Brain is Not a State Facility COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMANTo live free is to breathe at full depth while others gasp beneath a knee. It is to stand upright in the storm of existence rather than crawl through the corridors of sanctioned thought. The dictator’s first lie is that he offers safety; his second, that men cannot govern themselves. But history’s brightest flames have almost always burned in open air, rarely in the sealed vaults of tyranny. Dictatorships are architectures of …