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Author Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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What Kind of Society Do We Want to Live In?

In a democratic society, should anybody be allowed to say whatever they want? So what are the limits on speech? And there always have been some. We're not talking really about whether there should be no limits. We're talking about where those lines should be drawn and this is going to go on for a while. In an anarchy, everybody says everything; since infera structure has broken down, its total chaos, and nothing works. Periods of total chaos produce warlords. Totalitarianisms produce samesdat things get said, but under the covers. i'm old enough to have actually been behind the iron curtain, when there was one that was berlin. 19 84, r

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