4.3 Devaluation of Freedom
People who have lived without freedom for a long time have no way of appreciating its true value. This is why, when they are confronted with the need to pay a high price for it, they tend to look back and fall into nostalgia for an idealised image of the ‘good old days’. Thus, like the Israelites in the desert, they swiftly forget the hardships of slavery and want to go ‘back to Egypt’ for the sake of the few meagre pleasures they had had there.
This devaluation of liberty also leads people to sell freedom cheap to gain security and positions. This can also happen to Christians, who, having learned the art of cowardly submission to communist oppression, are sometimes ready to accept without protest the dictatorship of their own church leaders.
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