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Reactionary forms of post-liberalism seems to range all over the map, from separatist-Anabaptist and BenOp, to ethnonationalist or integralist.
This point is one thing they all recognize and agree about.
Liberalism coasts on the fumes of Christianity, then stalls out here.
This point is one thing they all recognize and agree about.
Liberalism coasts on the fumes of Christianity, then stalls out here.
I see this as a tragedy, and I still have a strong sentimental attachment to liberalism. It ushered in the beginning of an era of peace and prosperity and technological advances -- partially by cause, partially by being in the right place at the right time.
Relevant SSC quote:
Relevant SSC quote:
But liberalism doesn't have enough intrinsic rigidity to produce an alternative to Christian framework, nor to sustain Christianity, and so it gradually succumbs to a sort of osteoporotic degeneration -- too weak to resist the temptation toward a Huxleyan dystopia of pleasure.
As someone at the pessimistic end of the post-liberal spectrum, I think we need to accept that the bad days are returning.
Lots of people think they have a viable alternative to liberalism, but they disagree about what it is. They will eventually begin disagreeing with guns.
Lots of people think they have a viable alternative to liberalism, but they disagree about what it is. They will eventually begin disagreeing with guns.
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Dec 23, 2022
- Curated in Ideology: Liberalism