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For
my part I would like to say that the words Liberty
and liberal have evolved through a very opaque things or systems etc it had
referred to for example word liberty the etymology of the word liberty
itself from the Latin words "Liber,"
"Libera," and "Liberum" -- with a Long I -- came from the
root meaning, "to pour." From this, we get the word
"Liberty" (hence pronounced with a short I), from the freedom we feel
when we get drunk , a sort of feeling
high . So a lot depends on what you pour and what gives a feeling of high. If
the same word ‘liber’with a long I -- means,
"to peel," [from which the
word library is supposed to have come ] and the word liberal from latin liberalis “ noble, gracious, munificient” and according
to one of the best books on history ‘History for a united world’ that I have
read long back by an author called Edward
Herbert
Dance he mentions that the word liberty and liberal
were used for nobles and the aristocrats and it indicated or referred more to
‘class privilege than anything else’ this author incidentally writes “ India was far advanced in many areas when the
west was still groping about in dark ages”
So even taking it literally liberty depends on what gives you a feeling
of high and it gets its identity with that and as indicated above in modern
media labeling it gets identified with anything that is perceived as leftist
socialistic concepts correctness and therefore, or to be more blunt and precise,
because of that very reason there is nothing lofty about the word liberal
itself. So if someone says he is very liberal minded means exactly that ‘he is
identifying himself with a concept of correctness as defined and determined by the
leftist socialistic ideology and it varies from country to country. The left must be credited for mutilating even
the very meaning of the word by the connotations that they have given it and
the brand building exercises that they have carried on.
The word free too has two sides the brighter one goes in its root to
the word love itself but the darker one is an adverb you get something free,
not for free. To quote from ‘Word Nerd’ ‘freebooter is a pirate,”frees” the
“booty” from a ship. The elements of freedom are free and doom, but when the word
came into English , this combination meant “condition of being judged to be
free” and doom then meant “deem”.
I wish all of you also read these two excellent links second one short
[about how dirty the word liberty is’ and the first one long about how
mutilated and raped history is.
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