Sigh.
Liberalism does not, cannot, consider the possibility that restrictions on certain human behavior might sometimes be appropriate.
Sure it does: whenever your freedoms and liberties lead you to do something which either damages another or their own freedoms and liberties and their exercise restrictions are not just considered but actively supported.
And for the piece de resistance:
It must also (and finally for now) be recognised that liberalism is, above all, an individualist ideology and individualism is ultimately opposed to collectivism**. This may seem like an obvious point, but it’s one that seems to be increasingly forgotten by much of the intellectual Left these days. It matters because there is no way that society can be significantly changed in a positive direction as a result of policies designed by an individualist thought process (another basic and totally obvious point, I hope) and because collective rights are ultimately incompatible with an ideology that places the rights and the liberty of the individual before everything else.
Err, liberalism is bad because it allows people to think for themselves?
5 responses so far ↓
1 JuliaM // Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Well, yes. Otherwise how are the likes of Besy to get a job doing what they so dearly love: judging others and controlling them….
2 Polaris // Oct 17, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Quoth
“This blog has been created for a single purpose – to advance* a particular (and perhaps peculier) worldview that could be described as sort of romantic, moralistic, anti-liberal** Socialism or perhaps as a form of Socialism that rejects the idea of progress.”
Says enough for me – talk about predetermination; the failure of your blog that is…
3 Johnathan Pearce // Oct 17, 2009 at 5:56 pm
A better description of such a mindset is surely fascism.
4 Newmania // Oct 17, 2009 at 10:56 pm
romantic, moralistic, anti-liberal** Socialism or perhaps as a form of Socialism that rejects the idea of progress.”
Do you know I think I have found a kindred spirit across the greatv divide .Haloooooo !
5 David Gillies // Oct 18, 2009 at 8:27 am
When you’re basing your world view on such a congeries of category errors it’s probably not surprising that you’ll come off like the bastard offspring of Polly Toynbee and George Monbiot (which is to say, a complete fuckwit). Dickhead can’t spell suffrage either, so blithely ignore it.
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