The giant pachyderm in the room of modernism (arguably the largest pachyderm): any post-liberal program of self-moderation needs to account for the magic of in

The giant pachyderm in the room of modernism (arguably the largest pachyderm): any post-liberal program of self-moderation needs to account for the magic of intragenerational QoL improvements (even if we restrict ourselves to considering only the inner life). We can all go Greek, Latin, Pali, or Classical Chinese in search of questions and answers, but those civilizations didn't have either mass literacy or tech. Once upon a time (last century) we had to contend with the Eastern Bloc's moral positioning, but since the end of That no one who suggests putting personal growth (of the psychological kind) ahead of the economic one has been taken seriously. (And this is why @nonrandomstring above gets upvoted, even though I like your post better)