There's an entire cottage industry of anti-liberal intellectuals who explain everything that's wrong with the liberal order and then for some reason end by advocating a return to small communities of virtue--the solution most palatable to liberalism and most likely to fail.
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I've been trying to figure out why this is. If the liberal order is failing from the weight of its contradictions, then press on the weak points and advocate a superior replacement. But they don't. They start waxing poetic about farms in Iowa or fishing villages in Scotland.
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Maybe it's because they live in college towns, so their solution is going to look like that, just as Locke's description of the state of nature conveniently resembled 17th century England. But most of mankind live in cities, and that's only going to accelerate. What about them?
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They're also wealthy. Rich people can afford to ignore politics, take time off to read, live in gated communities, send kids to good schools, all while the religious life of the common man falls apart outside.
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For example, let's say the culture in your town becomes increasingly indifferent to the Sabbath. Rich Christians can afford to say how sad that is and how they need to make "sacrifices" by taking time off each Sunday. Meanwhile, the bosses make poor Christians work.
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What these thinkers can't say is that we need such and such political change. Maybe this would upset their lives, maybe it would make them unpopular, maybe they don't want to win. No idea. But it's a bizarre phenomenon.
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the simplest answer is that most critics of liberalism are themselves the products of liberal ideological capture, and therefore are too afraid to contemplate the implications of a postliberal/traditional society.
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It’s not just that they are afraid of the implications, they won’t even wrestle with what they would be. Reminded of
@Vermeullarmine ‘s friend who asked him if Jews would be safe. Those are the best questions!2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes - 1 more reply
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