There is a common critique of liberalism that runs something like this. All human existence is political. Liberalism attempts to ‘paper over’ the political nature of society. Therefore liberalism denies the basic facts of human nature. I agree with this argument. However, I believe that it is often based on incorrect assumptions about the ‘scope’ of politics. To move forward as a civilization, we must return to a depoliticized society.
The fatal flaw of Western Liberalism, is the selling by the elite class to the masses, of tolerance as the ultimate civilizational virtue. By convincing people to tolerate the intolerant you blind them in their ability to make the friend/enemy distinction until it’s too late to resist. The 2024 elections taking place across the West are the end of something, without a clear vision of what comes next, other than a possible period of anarcho-tyranny until the political/cultural sorting shakes out the new order of things.
I think most Western nations are too fractured from mass immigration to continue.
It amazes me people, especially women, think a country or nation can absorb anyone when the world is clearly made up of quite different people.
I agree this year feels like the end. I suspect this is the end of the west and from here on out it is kill or be killed. That is the inevitable outcome of liberalism, the ushering in of illiberalism.
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The fatal flaw of Western Liberalism, is the selling by the elite class to the masses, of tolerance as the ultimate civilizational virtue. By convincing people to tolerate the intolerant you blind them in their ability to make the friend/enemy distinction until it’s too late to resist. The 2024 elections taking place across the West are the end of something, without a clear vision of what comes next, other than a possible period of anarcho-tyranny until the political/cultural sorting shakes out the new order of things.
I think most Western nations are too fractured from mass immigration to continue.
It amazes me people, especially women, think a country or nation can absorb anyone when the world is clearly made up of quite different people.
I agree this year feels like the end. I suspect this is the end of the west and from here on out it is kill or be killed. That is the inevitable outcome of liberalism, the ushering in of illiberalism.
Your episode with CJ Engel on rights and liberalism was one of the best podcasts episodes I have heard from the NRX.
If I may request future speakers:
Morgath (again) and John Sweeney from ScrumpMonkey
Idk. Any mutual aid society eventually finds politics when things get not mutual. An imaginary friend or an imaginary community is a matter of scale.