Trading Freedom "To" for Freedom "From"...Temperance Now Outweighting Courage as a Virtue

For Žižek this is the predicament of Western civilization. Refusing higher causes or even an ability to imagine what one would fight for, modern man goes the way of Nietzsche’s Last Man who stands for nothing, takes no risks and seeks only security, daily pleasures and basic expressions of tolerance for one another. In this depoliticized realm, freedom becomes freedom from victimization or harassment and passion is mobilized primarily through moral indignation or fear (2009: 25, 36).

- Tina Managhan, "Krisis"Stop criticizing me, you BULLY! Mom, censor him!" The new attack upon the First Amendment... in the name of the children.