We just received the Inauguration edition of Newsweek Magazine, featuring the perspectives and thoughts of more than 25 historians, writers, thinkers and dreamers about the recent Presidential Inauguration and its affect on the country. John Meacham recalled the words of Frankin D. Roosevelt's 1941 state of the Union Address where he mentioned four of the many freedoms worth fighting for: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Meacham's article also brought up the point that "freedom is fluid" meaning it is always changing and needing redefinition. For instance, the founding fathers did not mention want or fear perhaps in part because there was no expectation of freedom from those things. But by the time of Roosevelt, expectations had changed. Just as now, we could add to that list freedom from discrimination, freedom from interference.
What freedoms do you think are new in our culture and which ones are no longer applicable? What does freedom mean to you?
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