On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 05:13:28PM -0500, dan@geer.org wrote:

Georgi Guninski writes: | On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 08:34:14AM -0500, dan@geer.org wrote: | > The question here is perhaps obvious: Will you opt out and suffer | > the consequences thereof? | > | > --dan | | Let me counter-ask only `dan': | | Will you exchange a walk on part in a war for | a lead role in a cage? | | This is not exactly quote from Floyd's song.

After looking up the lyrics and reading a few pages about them, I confess to still being confused as to what they mean and, hence, what their question is. That is an honest answer -- I am not good (at all) with anything that is "high art" or whatever the right terminology here would be.

Now, as a guess, I'll counter by asking if the lyric is simply a light modernization of:

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain. -- John Adams, 2nd US President

If the "Floyd" lyric asks whether yours is a purpose-driven life, then my answer to "freedom, security, comfort, choose two" is freedom and security, abjuring comfort, per se.

Never mind the lyrics, assume it doesn't exist. Assuming you are the same dan geer who is some boss at in-q-tel, which appears closely related to the cia, what is your definition of "freedom" -- what the usgov decides to give to the enslaved peasants?