Liberalism is the rebellion now
We told ourselves that liberal individualism would liberate the soul. But it dissolved the old anchors and offered little in return. It gave us autonomy without telos. Expression without ethic. Identity without obligation. The result isn’t a lack of community—it’s a lack of coherence. We’re surrounded by content, but starving for character.
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The liberal story was the story of ordinary people. How can it remain relevant to a world of cyborgs and networked algorithms?
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Just as was the case with the Second Disruption in early nineteenth-century Europe, populism is the only way to manage the kind of transformation we are set to confront. Then, making sense of a changing world was enacted through new forms of togetherness: nationalism both liberal and authoritarian, imperialism, racism and socialism. The present
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