The proposition sends shivers up some people’s spines when it’s perfectly innocuous and as neutral between political outlooks as 2+2=4.
If you disagree, please explain why you disagree.
The old feminist slogan?
What does “the proposition” mean to you. Can you explain it?
"Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=5. If that is granted, all else follows” -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four
Some people might consider it the other way around- the political is personal.
The proposition “the personal is political”.
Yes… what does that mean to you?
“Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4”. FTFY
You didn’t get it?
Oh, I get it. It’s just that that quote come from the main character, Winston Smith, writing in his journal. And in the book his quote is “ Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4”.
Yes, I know. And why is that freedom?
