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Post by stugatze on Nov 10, 2021 22:23:51 GMT
Dr. Steve Turley: Liberalism is dying Liberalism is dying and the reason why philosophically big-picture is because its foundations have rotted out.
By: Ted Slater November 9, 2021
Dr. Steve Turley, author and popular YouTuber/podcaster, was a featured speaker at the American Freedom Tour event that took place in Jacksonville on Oct. 8-9.
He is scheduled to appear in the American Freedom Tour event taking place in Phoenix on Nov. 19-20. First, please forgive our videographer. Dr. Turley had just begun his speech, and the guy manning the videocamera hadn’t yet set it up. So it’s horribly distractingly chaotic. I’ll make sure to whack him in the back of the head the next time he messes up so badly. In any case, in his speech Dr. Turley encouraged the audience to retain a balanced perspective on the future of America, while also taking hope that the philosophy behind the Left is dying. “The Stockdale Principle. Have you ever heard of the Stockdale Principle? Named after Admiral James Stockdale, a highest ranking military navy man who was in a Vietnam prison war camp? And they asked him: How did you survive seven years and over 20 tortures? And he said by doing two things:
By being absolutely realistic about the situation that I’m in. Never ever losing hope that we’re going to prevail.
“And what we’ve got to understand is we’re in a time, right now, where scholars — now, these are primarily liberal scholars — believe that liberalism is dying. You have to let that hit you. Liberalism is dying and the reason why philosophically big-picture is because its foundations have rotted out.
“The key to understanding what’s going on — the key — is that even although those modernist roots for liberalism have rotted out, our Western elite continue to try to export modernity in the form of globalization. And globalization, it erases our borders, it hollows out our industry, and calls our traditions racist, bigoted, homophobic.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2021 22:41:05 GMT
I definitely agree that we are seeing a test of liberalism unlike anything I have lived through (well.. 9/11 is a close second) but when you start quoting people who think international trade and immigration are some kind of grand threat, it is clear that this is not sober analysis of trends or patterns, but rather a hit piece on liberalism itself by an individual who doesn't seem to have any liberal sympathies.
The liberal commercial society is not consistent with conservative values regarding culture, tradition or the preservation of a particular caste, class or industry. Freedom is dynamic. It upends. Creative destruction touches everything, including culture and tradition. And out of that process something new is created, and it is usually beautiful.
We should lament any weakening of this impulse in our society for it has been part of what has made this society so great. The end of the age of liberalism is the end of the age of freedom, and that is a foolish thing to wish for.
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Post by stugatze on Nov 11, 2021 12:17:52 GMT
I definitely agree that we are seeing a test of liberalism unlike anything I have lived through (well.. 9/11 is a close second) but when you start quoting people who think international trade and immigration are some kind of grand threat, it is clear that this is not sober analysis of trends or patterns, but rather a hit piece on liberalism itself by an individual who doesn't seem to have any liberal sympathies. The liberal commercial society is not consistent with conservative values regarding culture, tradition or the preservation of a particular caste, class or industry. Freedom is dynamic. It upends. Creative destruction touches everything, including culture and tradition. And out of that process something new is created, and it is usually beautiful. We should lament any weakening of this impulse in our society for it has been part of what has made this society so great. The end of the age of liberalism is the end of the age of freedom, and that is a foolish thing to wish for.
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LIBERALISM'S foundations have rotted out!- That is all anybody needs to know and Turley is quite correct about that!   |
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Post by elmerfudd on Nov 11, 2021 13:27:44 GMT
I definitely agree that we are seeing a test of liberalism unlike anything I have lived through (well.. 9/11 is a close second) but when you start quoting people who think international trade and immigration are some kind of grand threat, it is clear that this is not sober analysis of trends or patterns, but rather a hit piece on liberalism itself by an individual who doesn't seem to have any liberal sympathies. The liberal commercial society is not consistent with conservative values regarding culture, tradition or the preservation of a particular caste, class or industry. Freedom is dynamic. It upends. Creative destruction touches everything, including culture and tradition. And out of that process something new is created, and it is usually beautiful. We should lament any weakening of this impulse in our society for it has been part of what has made this society so great. The end of the age of liberalism is the end of the age of freedom, and that is a foolish thing to wish for.well, trumpies are foolish. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2021 14:12:48 GMT
I definitely agree that we are seeing a test of liberalism unlike anything I have lived through (well.. 9/11 is a close second) but when you start quoting people who think international trade and immigration are some kind of grand threat, it is clear that this is not sober analysis of trends or patterns, but rather a hit piece on liberalism itself by an individual who doesn't seem to have any liberal sympathies. The liberal commercial society is not consistent with conservative values regarding culture, tradition or the preservation of a particular caste, class or industry. Freedom is dynamic. It upends. Creative destruction touches everything, including culture and tradition. And out of that process something new is created, and it is usually beautiful. We should lament any weakening of this impulse in our society for it has been part of what has made this society so great. The end of the age of liberalism is the end of the age of freedom, and that is a foolish thing to wish for. "Creative destruction"?
Creative destruction, sometimes known as Schumpeter's gale, is a term in economics which has since the 1950s become most readily identified with the Austrian American economist Joseph Schumpeter, who adapted it from the work of Karl Marx and popularized it as a theory of economic innovation and the business cycle. The term is derived from Marxist economic theory, where it refers to the linked processes of the accumulation and annihilation of wealth under capitalism.
Applying this term to business evolution cannot be equated to the destructive impact of applying such a concept to our culture and traditions.
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Post by stugatze on Nov 11, 2021 15:55:06 GMT
Listen up, .. you young and uninformed little leftists, ..I have/had NO problem with old 'Classical Liberalism' of decades and decades ago, .. it's the PERVERTED 'Modern Liberalism' and/or so called, 'Progressive Liberalism' that I and millions of OTHER people DESPISE with a passion! 
Until... you little young leftists UNDERSTAND the DIFFERENCES,  .. you WILL continue to know .. NOTHING! |
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Post by demos on Nov 11, 2021 16:27:09 GMT
Listen up, .. you young and uninformed little leftists, ..I have/had NO problem with old 'Classical Liberalism' of decades and decades ago... Your posting history would suggest otherwise. |
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