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>>20814695
>He's doubling down lol

My contention is that liberalism in theory is wrong, and liberals never actually care about realizing its values in practice. The people who invented the ideals of freedom and liberty were slave owners. What they care about is keeping people trapped in their individuality, unwilling to organize as a collective and hypnotized by values that never come into material fruition. Even people like Francis Fukuyama openly admit that this is the goal of Liberalism. As long as people enjoy an abundance of consumerism, indulge in their desires and vote in fake elections every couple years, then society will be relatively peaceful. Deneen does a great job of showing these contradictions, I just disagree that people are abandoning these values, because they aren’t. Everyone still believes in the same foundational lies, and that’s all liberalism needs to keep surviving: faith, not practice. It’s a false ideology with arbitrary pillars, we need to stop treating it as a rigid dogma because that’s how liberalism always reinforces itself.