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notebook on liberalism and obsolesence

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@ -175,6 +175,6 @@ Thus, Liberalism is not obsolete. Many of its defenders today claim Liberalism i
Liberalism is wrong, because it *personalises* universal principles into self-justifications meant to stand outside the judgement of universal principle. Which makes it incoherent at best, and as we have seen throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, catastrophically dangerous at worst.
But don't confuse this essay as an unqualified defence of The One as a singular rule of political order, either. The interesting thing about the paradox of The One and The Many, is precisely that there is no resolution. Wisdom lies in learning to cope with both. Yet, the wisdom to know when to expect unity and when to expect plurality, is something this generation seems to have lost. It demands either one, or the other because it lacks the intellectual maturity to understand the problem.
But don't confuse this essay as an unqualified defence of The One as a singular rule of political order, either. The interesting thing about the paradox of The One and The Many, is precisely that there is no resolution. Wisdom lies in learning to cope with both. Yet, the wisdom to know when to expect unity and when to expect plurality, is something this generation seems to have lost. It demands either one or the other because it lacks the intellectual maturity to understand the problem.
The present monomania of modern identity politics seems to indicate that there is no stopping the juggernaut of self-deification. So, for those of you worried that Liberalism might be obsolete, you take heart in the fact that the cancer has metastasised, and is inoperable. Obsolete or not, it's not going away, and its consequences are virtually inevitable. The real question, will we survive those consequences, and if we do, what will happen afterwards?