They'll just redefine "freedom" like they do everything else. "Are you really free if some UNMASKED ANTIVAXXER is breathing the same air as you? True freedom is freedom from these filthy super spreaders."
“There! You see!” said the Ape. “It’s all arranged. And all for your own good. We’ll be able, with the money you earn, to make Narnia a country worth living in. There’ll be oranges and bananas pouring in—and roads and big cities and schools and offices and whips and muzzles and saddles and cages and kennels and prisons—Oh, everything.”
“But we don’t want all those things,” said an old Bear. “We want to be free. And we want to hear Aslan speak himself.”
“Now don’t you start arguing,” said the Ape, “for it’s a thing I won’t stand. I’m a Man: you’re only a fat, stupid old Bear. What do you know about freedom? You think freedom means doing what you like. Well, you’re wrong. That isn’t true freedom. True freedom means doing what I tell you.”
“H-n-n-h,” grunted the Bear and scratched its head; it found this sort of thing hard to understand.
Good.
Let them make freedom their enemy. I can't see how this will not blow up in their face.
They'll just redefine "freedom" like they do everything else. "Are you really free if some UNMASKED ANTIVAXXER is breathing the same air as you? True freedom is freedom from these filthy super spreaders."
“There! You see!” said the Ape. “It’s all arranged. And all for your own good. We’ll be able, with the money you earn, to make Narnia a country worth living in. There’ll be oranges and bananas pouring in—and roads and big cities and schools and offices and whips and muzzles and saddles and cages and kennels and prisons—Oh, everything.”
“But we don’t want all those things,” said an old Bear. “We want to be free. And we want to hear Aslan speak himself.”
“Now don’t you start arguing,” said the Ape, “for it’s a thing I won’t stand. I’m a Man: you’re only a fat, stupid old Bear. What do you know about freedom? You think freedom means doing what you like. Well, you’re wrong. That isn’t true freedom. True freedom means doing what I tell you.”
“H-n-n-h,” grunted the Bear and scratched its head; it found this sort of thing hard to understand.
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
No, the APE claimed to be a Man. He pulled rank, and argued from Assumed Authority.
The Bear is the one having to put up with the Ape's bullshit.
Unfortunately for all of us, it was a social commentary concerning the redefinition of freedom, and not a gay joke.
Freedom is a right wing buzzword. All leftism, even the tiniest bit, is tyrannical.
You have the freedom to do as you’re told, when you’re told, peasant.