The Defense of Liberty

I'm reading Sigmund Freud's "Civilisation and Its Discontents" and in this he states that, "individual liberty is not an asset of civilisation" since civilisation (and i think it's fair to say democracy, which is the eventual political state in any advanced society) denies individual freedom in favour of the protection of the status quo. In an anarchistic society, the individual promotes their own freedom through "brute force", but in a civilised society a large enough consensus has the power to defend itself against that force so that no one person has success at the expense of another.

This leads to a life of averages.

I have finished two bottles of wine.