This was great. Goes a long way explaining how societies work—and how they don’t. I always wondered why India doesn’t take off as a nation and a huge reason is the low trust (lying and corruption are rampant there).
The only way to compensate is with an increasingly authoritarian government (i.e. China) or zero diversity (i.e. Japan). Consequently, secular diverse societies like those in Western Europe are falling into chaos, prompting more authoritarian government and increasing nativism.
Liberalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. There is no way to avoid the slippery slope. Polanyi characterized this in terms of economic disembedding and the corrosive power of the market. But -- and you have described this perfectly -- it's actually much more than that. It's the corrosive power of transactional, rational relationships per se. Billiard ball individualism can't sustain pre-political, pre-cognitive forms of interdependency. This is why 'Lucian Chardon's' take down of postliberalism was so off target. The only question is what form of life after liberalism will take root. It doesn't have to be state-collectivist; or market-state authoritarian/ fascist...although if I was a betting man. This was my take https://oswald67.substack.com/p/postliberalism-a-very-quick-response
An excellent article and totally correct. The destruction of the social contract based as it must be on a religious foundation has been the greatest single achievement of the Marxist enemy operating in our society. The consequences of the breakdown of the social contract, bad as it is, will only get worse unless we can turn things around. The likelihood that will be able to turn things around is not very high.
More and more aspects of life that were once served through organic connections to people - whether family or community - are now served by managerial bureaucracies, or simply by technology. It is a continuation of liberalism's war on organic order, and the process by which Western societies and peoples are rendered interchangeable, fungible, and replaceable.
This was great. Goes a long way explaining how societies work—and how they don’t. I always wondered why India doesn’t take off as a nation and a huge reason is the low trust (lying and corruption are rampant there).
The only way to compensate is with an increasingly authoritarian government (i.e. China) or zero diversity (i.e. Japan). Consequently, secular diverse societies like those in Western Europe are falling into chaos, prompting more authoritarian government and increasing nativism.
Liberalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. There is no way to avoid the slippery slope. Polanyi characterized this in terms of economic disembedding and the corrosive power of the market. But -- and you have described this perfectly -- it's actually much more than that. It's the corrosive power of transactional, rational relationships per se. Billiard ball individualism can't sustain pre-political, pre-cognitive forms of interdependency. This is why 'Lucian Chardon's' take down of postliberalism was so off target. The only question is what form of life after liberalism will take root. It doesn't have to be state-collectivist; or market-state authoritarian/ fascist...although if I was a betting man. This was my take https://oswald67.substack.com/p/postliberalism-a-very-quick-response
An excellent article and totally correct. The destruction of the social contract based as it must be on a religious foundation has been the greatest single achievement of the Marxist enemy operating in our society. The consequences of the breakdown of the social contract, bad as it is, will only get worse unless we can turn things around. The likelihood that will be able to turn things around is not very high.
More and more aspects of life that were once served through organic connections to people - whether family or community - are now served by managerial bureaucracies, or simply by technology. It is a continuation of liberalism's war on organic order, and the process by which Western societies and peoples are rendered interchangeable, fungible, and replaceable.
This was great. For the follow-up, the idea that aimed towards a society of rock stars, but became a society of carnies needs some elaboration;)