Very interesting post @vieira. Well written and thought provoking ...
"... the people accustomed to being sheep are constantly looking for a shepherd to guide them."
The heart of your post seems to me self-evident. Freedom (I like liberty ...) has nothing to do with economics. Or resources ... Latin America has these in abundance.
It has everything to do with what a man believes. What a man thinks is so profoundly influenced by what he believes to be true ...
In my country, the USA, we once were clear about this. "We the people" fought a war to be free. Free to do what? Choose not our leaders. BUT, our representatives! There is a world of difference between the two ...
Sadly, "we" (speaking of the majority ...) have lost sight of this and are therefore losing our liberty. And not in the early stages either, but in an advanced state of decline ...
I would desperately love to be proven wrong. We'll find out!
Upvoted 100%. Keep posting @Vieira! 👍
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So is. Liberty is an idea, it is not an object, therefore, if people stop believing in it or stop understanding it, then it is lost. The systems in which man has more liberty are more fragile, because they need people to maintain them, and if these move away from the real sense of liberty, then it easily decays. It is easier to descend from liberty to tyranny, than vice versa.