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The recent cultural trend towards radical liberalism is inherently dystopian. Fighting free speech, mandating psychological evaluation for questioning the main
by silicon2401 6y ago
The recent cultural trend towards radical liberalism is inherently dystopian. Fighting free speech, mandating psychological evaluation for questioning the main narrative. These are things that dictatorships and theocracies do
- hellisothers 6y agoIs it necessarily radical liberalism that tends towards a dystopia? I was curious where this sentiment was coming from (I’ve read it elsewhere) and read some books on conservative philosophy (original post-enlightenment conservatism, not contemporary) and found it there too. It seemed like you could replace “radical liberalism” with “radical $ideology” including conservatism, the problem isn’t liberalism, it’s extremism.
- silicon2401 6y agoThat's a great point. My point was very specific, I didn't comment on whether or not other ideologies also lead to a dystopian end, or whether radical liberalism is the only one. It's probably academic/semantic/subjective. Very interesting to think about