Freedom for Sale
At the Jaipur Literary Festival in India last month I heard John Kampfner speak about his book Freedom for Sale , subtitled ‘how we made money and lost our liberty.’ The book takes eight countries – Singapore, China, Russia, the UAE, India, Italy, Britain and the USA – and examines how people in each country, in their own distinct fashion, have traded liberty for security and/or money. Singapore – ‘Disneyland with the death sentence’ as William Gibson once neatly put it – is a prime example. Everybody’s happy and puts up with the government’s paternalistic control because (almost) everybody comes out of it OK, as long as they agree to let the government pull the strings
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