What this piece gets right is that human beings, whatever their political system, have always sought out a space of freedom within it.
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What it misses is the distinction between societies where this personal freedom could be found in the gaps and societies where a permanent space for such freedom was established.
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Societies where a space for freedom exists have been rare in history, and the window where Western societies experienced their limited version of it may already have closed.
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