Is the 21st century’s version of freedom liberating or a freedom trap?

These days, we want Rights, not religion. Choice, not Church. Pleasure, over prayer. 

In Australia, and the world  increasingly, the market is the Messiah, and the self is the saviour. 

But, if we’re the freest people who’ve ever lived, to choose our partners, careers, genders, and Gods or no God, free to buy anything, stream anything, be anything...why then do we seem to be unravelling?   

In a world of loneliness, anxiety, extremism, polarisation, the more we chase freedom, the more it seems to slip away. 

Are we in a freedom trap?

GUESTS:

Priyan Max Jeganathan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity, author of The Freedom Trap.

Alexander Lefebvre is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He's the author of Liberalism as a Way of Life.