freedom

After publishing my last post, I noticed an ad on the page about Freedom. You probably won't see it, but I felt compelled to share this anyway:

"...[T]he Western and especially American view ... emphasizes what is loosely called 'liberty' or 'freedom' and glorifies the individual and freedom of action. ...But in East Asia, absence of rules was seen as producing chaos. There is no word in any of their languages for our concept of 'freedom'; the closest equivalent means simply 'no rules,' and it was understood that this is bad for everybody..."

(from East Asia: A New History, by Rhoads Murphey)