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The Problem With Empowerment

An allegory on Free Speech

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Mar 20, 2025
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I have a gripe against empowerment. It is that we expect wonders to occur by symbolic acclaim. Merit be damned.

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Dateline April 2019

There is a significant difference between the defense of free speech, and the empowerment of random speech.

I was listening to the Joe Rogan podcast with Nicholas Christakis and they briefly discussed his problems with Yale's…

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