Aphorism #8: Free Speech Requires a Container
Beyond Putrefaction and the Algorithm
Free speech is like happiness.
It isn’t created merely by removing obstacles. This bias went unchecked in psychiatry and psychology for almost a century. Happiness, we’ve since discovered, isn’t the absence of misery — not a double negative.
It is positive.
We must take action to move towards a good life.
Free speech doesn’t happen in the absence of sup…
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