This is lesson 15 in Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. It feels anodyne and bland. Snyder is essentially saying that voluntary association is anti-authoritarian. “But one element of freedom is the activity of groups to sustain their members. This is why we should engage in activities that are of interest to us, our friends, our families. Václav Havel, the Czech dissident thinker, gave the example of brewing good beer.” As a consequence, this lesson doesn’t seem all that different from the previous three:
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This is lesson 15 in Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. It feels anodyne and bland. Snyder is essentially saying that voluntary association is anti-authoritarian. “But one element of freedom is the activity of groups to sustain their members. This is why we should engage in activities that are of interest to us, our friends, our families. Václav Havel, the Czech dissident thinker, gave the example of brewing good beer.” As a consequence, this lesson doesn’t seem all that different from the previous three: