Freedom and Order

Presidential Medal of Freedom

David Warren has a few thoughts on the subject. This line stuck out:

Yet it is order, not freedom, that is hard to supply; for a dictatorship is a disorder. It is held together only by compulsion, and it disintegrates when the compulsion is relaxed. 

Civilization requires a certain amount of order, I suppose the trick is to maintain that order with the minimal amount of compulsion, or perhaps careful indoctrination.

P.S. Looking for an image of 'Freedom and Order', several Medals of Freedom showed up, including one from Iran. I chose ours because I didn't know much about it and this gave me an excuse to learn a bit.