Wesley Yang's "successor ideology" is a good phrase for this stuff because it clarifies how it comes after other forms of ameliorative liberalism have failed, & how it seeks to dismiss& discredit these failures..but in doing so, dismisses&discredits the goals of liberalism itself https://twitter.com/EdWeekTeacher/status/1185344812523720705 …
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I think "successor ideology" is Okay, in the sense that it is useful enough, and people who think it's a bad term should come up with and propose a better one.
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"Totalitarian anti-naturalism" pretty much describes it.
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What do you think about terminal stage liberalism?
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Cumbersome and genealogically problematic.
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Am at the moment reading Burnham’s 1964 Suicide of the West. I read his description of 60s progressivism/liberalism and see the same beast although not yet in total command or totally unhinged. Cf Catholicism 1130 and 1430.
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