Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 84
Free Speech Paradox
Here is a thing that should not be true, and is: Free Speech Paradox. Sit with it for a moment. It will repay you.
The way out is not to solve it but to carry it. Some loads are meant to be carried, not put down. This paradox is one of them, and the carrying itself builds the muscle.
The village panchayat and the housing society meeting are the same animal in different clothes: five people deciding, fifty people complaining, and everyone leaving wiser than the minutes suggest.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Carry it lightly. Ideas, like umbrellas, are useful only when actually opened.