luka
Well-known member
Ha! I doubt that, Oliver.
Anyway, this:
Is worthy of note.
There are lots of paradoxes associated with progressive-idealism--in fact paradox is one of the defining characteristics of its dominant phase.
For example, equal freedom for all is the goal and ideal of modern liberalism--and yet its method in practice is the ever-expanding "managerial state", with attendant audit culture, abolition of politics and rule by an omnipresent enlightened elite.
To take another example, classical liberalism demanded strict limits to the power of the state, property rights, the sovereignty of private life and the elevation of bourgeois morality. Modern liberalism reverses all of those demands, and instead views a life of individually-determined hedonism as the fundamental right to be guaranteed by the power of the state.
Or, modern liberalism claims to be all about tolerance, but in reality it is no more tolerant than any other ruling ideology--you don't climb to the summit of the mountain of bones without adding a bit to it yourself. To question liberalism is to question reason itself--since liberalism proceeds from reason--and is thus inherently unreasonable, which is a Bad Thing by definition. Dissent, then, is impossible.
And so on...
Vim beating his favourite drum