Definition of ‘freedom’ would be freedom to play a game. Nothing more and nothing less. …
“Well, when one doesn’t have a right to play a game, why, his freedom has been injured. If somebody makes it so that it isn’t fun anymore, that is an incursion against freedom. …
“When it’s no longer fun to be a peasant and when it’s no longer fun to be a good officer, when it’s no longer fun to be a good janitor, when one can’t have his own pride and self-respect in what he’s doing and so forth, his freedom has been entered upon more deeply than anyone has a right to enter upon freedom.
“So, where are you trying to put your preclear under this definition of freedom? You’re trying to get him out of a compulsive and obsessive dramatization of what he conceives to be ‘freedom,’ into the freedom to enjoy it.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Essence of SOP 8-C delivered on 8 December 1953. This can be found in the 2nd American ACC lectures. Track 16.
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