Liberty! What Crimes...
COULDN'T resist that heading, but I don’t really grudge Adult Education their annual spree on Question Mark, when they discuss some vast topic in order to start hares to be followed up by discussion groups. It doesn’t usually make for a wholly satisfactory radio discussion from the point of view of the listener who likes to know where he is by nine o’clock; though this year’s considerations of liberty have been more selective and disciplined than some in the past. One panel seemed agreed that New Zealanders are too conformist. I
should like to hear an advocate for conformity. It gets a bad press these days, but there may be a few things to be said for it. It would seem that human societies in which conformity is the rule are normal. Societies encouraging liberty are sports, rare, incomplete and shortlived. They’ may make enormous advances in many fields, but somewhat to the discomfort of many individuals deprived of direction. Societies in which people know what is expected of them and that they are expected to do nothing else may possibly produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is at least an argument I should like to hear argued.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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204Liberty! What Crimes... New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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