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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Maybe that was a price they thought worth paying. Given the choice between a contented life and a free life, many people might choose the former.
In the end, we're shown one generation suffering for their complacency, but many generations would have lived contented lives beforehand.
It is not necessary for everyone that they must be free in order to be happy.
In many ways we shackle ourselves throughout our lives.
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You can have freedom, or you can have security; rarely can you have both. It’s true that many in
my country have chosen the latter since that infamous day the Twin Towers fell, but it was not so with the founders of the nation. Fresh from a war that could have cost them their fortunes, their reputations, and their very lives, they enshrined the remarkable Bill of Rights in our Constitution as a reminder of how precious were the freedoms upon which this country was founded.
In like manner, you can have the comforting myth, or the unvarnished truth. Many choose to believe that which provides the most comfort and have little desire to discover disquieting truths that may rock them out of their state of complacency.
It’s the same question, posed in different ways to each generation: will you choose the Red Pill or the Blue one?