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Call the first narrative “Free America.” In the past half century it’s been the most politically powerful of the four. Free America draws on libertarian ideas, which it installs in the high-powered engine of consumer capitalism. The freedom it champions is very different from Alexis de Tocqueville’s art of self-government. It’s personal freedom, without other people—the negative liberty of “Don’t tread on me.”
George Packer
theatlantic.com
A tool doesn’t possess conscience. The one who wields it does. The industry keeps naming the tool as if it were the wielder. The Church’s first pastoral act in this age is to give the words back to the persons to whom they belong.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
Scruton believes that if we’re less concerned with ruling the world than with having a secure place to enjoy the “goods of social affection,” then we’ll be more likely to treat generously others who want to enjoy those same goods, even if those people are very different from us in both belief and practice.
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