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Stages of Liberalism

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Liberalism can’t stop asking for more after achieving reasonable wins. Because the moment it stops, it becomes its own opposite. It becomes conservatism.

Liberalism is a fight for human freedom. Once reasonable freedoms are achieved, it will fight for unreasonable ones. It’s unavoidable. It’s in the name.

In its initial stage, liberalism fought for the liberation of humans from religion.

In the next stage, it pursued the liberation of humans from society.

When these goals were achieved, it started fighting for the liberation of humans from biology.

It’s not a mistake or malfunction that liberalism today demands things that are insane and irrational. It couldn’t have possibly gone in any other direction.

6 responses to “Stages of Liberalism”

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    Anonymous

    How is medicine not liberation of humans from biology?

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      Clarissa

      Of course, it is. And it’s great. Like all of the achievements of liberalism until a certain point. That’s precisely what I’m saying. It’s great. But it can’t stop without turning into a denial of itself.

      Great question, thanks.

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        How does it work in stages like that? Aren’t many religions themselves attempts to liberate humans from biology by pretending death is not the end?

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          Clarissa

          This is another very good question. You are on a roll today.

          Of course, the terror of death is a constant of human existence. Christianity offers a release from that fear in the promise of eternal life. In Christianity, we achieve eternal life through the will of God. The only path towards it is through an engagement with the Other. And not just any other. But the Other that is all-powerful. We have to abandon all hubris and give our selves over to the will of God.

          A neoliberal subject doesn’t have the Other. It only has the self. It only transcends the self to get more self. Instead of the rejection of hubris, its the self being subsumed completely by hubris.

          This is very helpful for the portion of the book I’m writing at the moment. I’m very grateful for your questions.

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            Anonymous

            I’m happy to help!

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            Anonymous

            All jokes aside though, what giving ourselves over to the will of God entails is defined by us, humans. Either by listening to the elders/authorities/wise men, or, if we hear the voice of God (thanks to drugs or mental illness) – our own subconscious.

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