The History of Freedom
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Episode 6:
4,500 years ago in a Mesopotamian city called Lagash, the first use of the word “freedom” appeared. Someone in that ancient and long-dead city state wrote the word down because the city was having the very same problems we have today in modern America.
This episodes explains why, for thousands of years, civilization has made no progress towards actually achieving freedom — and it explains what to do about it. This is the introduction to a scientific explanation of what freedom is.
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