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The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

-Alexander Herzen

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The World Will Not Know Liberty Until

Alexander Herzen

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

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The statue of liberty was never meant to be a symbol of immigration. it was meant to be a symbol of liberty and freedom. lady liberty is stepping forward. she is meant to be carrying the torch of liberty from the united states to the rest of the world. the torch is not to light the way to the united states. it is to light the way to liberty to the rest of the world. lady liberty is carrying the light of liberty to the rest of the world. it is not a beacon for immigrants to get to this country because they're tired, they're poor, they're huddled, hungry, or thirsty.

I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. i think i admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than i do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. but i don't much like the practice. i think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.

When i first prepared this particular talk... i realized that my usual approach is usually critical. that is, a lot of the things that i do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. and i realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. it's kind of a gresham's law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. you just can't criticize anything.

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

Oh god, are there so many of them in our land! students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. religion is not. the mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. the mystic has reasons for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. the roiling mystery of the world can be analyzed with concepts (this is science), or it can be experienced free of concepts (this is myticism). religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. it is the denial-at once full of hope and full of fear-of the vastitude of human ignorance.

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