But in the social democratic moment, the fact of mutual interdependence was understood and celebrated. It was the neoliberals, typified by Thatcher's "there is no such thing as Society" that destroyed this, and set the scene for today's atomized disaster.
If some version of liberalism is to survive, it must be one that treats political actors like Thatcher and theorists like Hayek and Nozick (and of course Locke) as opponents of liberalism who value property over freedom and equality.
I tend to believe the end of Liberal Democracy has been engineered by a controlled demolition of the main street economy through neoliberal economics over the last 50 years. This serves the Elite Class which has targeted Liberal Democracy since 1975 when they determined we had a Crisis in Democracy (too much of it).
With the deteriorating economic conditions of middle class Liberal Democracy and Immigration (which benefits the Elite Class through wage suppression ) was offered as the Scapegoat .
Populism seems more like a Trojan Horse for the Wealthy Elite Class to end Liberal Democracy and receive more economic benefits , but people are not able to see past anything more than wanting change and hoping that will work.
Any future form of Liberalism has to weigh at least equally the duty to others and the duty to place alongside the duty to one’s self.
In practice, these two other considerations have been perceived as resources to bolster personal achievement. This isolates us from each other with the illusion of self-sufficiency.
Perhaps the freedom that Liberalism promised was always the freedom of the barons and merchants, the freedom to live outside the bonds of human interactions, the freedom of the Magna Carta. What we need now is a new Charter of the Forest that outlines our rights and responsibilities to each other and the land.
Yes, individuals should be free from exploitation and sovereign in determining their future, but so also should communities and the places they inhabit. We need different methods of governance that enable this. We need to extend individual rights to communities and ecosystems.
I see these thoughts bubbling up everywhere and it gives me hope.
But in the social democratic moment, the fact of mutual interdependence was understood and celebrated. It was the neoliberals, typified by Thatcher's "there is no such thing as Society" that destroyed this, and set the scene for today's atomized disaster.
If some version of liberalism is to survive, it must be one that treats political actors like Thatcher and theorists like Hayek and Nozick (and of course Locke) as opponents of liberalism who value property over freedom and equality.
I tend to believe the end of Liberal Democracy has been engineered by a controlled demolition of the main street economy through neoliberal economics over the last 50 years. This serves the Elite Class which has targeted Liberal Democracy since 1975 when they determined we had a Crisis in Democracy (too much of it).
With the deteriorating economic conditions of middle class Liberal Democracy and Immigration (which benefits the Elite Class through wage suppression ) was offered as the Scapegoat .
Populism seems more like a Trojan Horse for the Wealthy Elite Class to end Liberal Democracy and receive more economic benefits , but people are not able to see past anything more than wanting change and hoping that will work.
Any future form of Liberalism has to weigh at least equally the duty to others and the duty to place alongside the duty to one’s self.
In practice, these two other considerations have been perceived as resources to bolster personal achievement. This isolates us from each other with the illusion of self-sufficiency.
Perhaps the freedom that Liberalism promised was always the freedom of the barons and merchants, the freedom to live outside the bonds of human interactions, the freedom of the Magna Carta. What we need now is a new Charter of the Forest that outlines our rights and responsibilities to each other and the land.
Yes, individuals should be free from exploitation and sovereign in determining their future, but so also should communities and the places they inhabit. We need different methods of governance that enable this. We need to extend individual rights to communities and ecosystems.
I see these thoughts bubbling up everywhere and it gives me hope.