Liberty Liberal and
Freedom
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”.
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