By the time you’re reading this, I’m approximately 2,452 miles away from my writing desk, sitting in the sands of a California beach, wondering why we chose to live in a place where the air hurts our faces for half the year.
It was with this trip on the horizon that I got to spend time thinking about this week’s f-word. It’s a tricky one; a pro at getting politicized and religionized; a concept that means very different things to very different people; a word that has a way of taking from some as much as it gives to others.
Freedom.
What’s ironic is that it wasn’t until I started studying this word that the entire f-word series started to make sense.
So, let’s begin by heading to the best place in the world to learn about freedom: North Korea.
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