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Jonathan Rauch's, in a book that's prescient, written in 1992, it's called 'Kindly Inquisitors,' explains liberalism in a very succinct way. He says it's two principles: Nobody gets the final say and nobody has special authority.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
The man in Roomette 7, Car No. 2, was a journalist who wrote that it is proper and moral to use compulsion “for a good cause,” who believed that he had the right to unleash physical force upon others—to wreck lives, throttle ambitions, strangle desires, violate convictions, to imprison, to despoil, to murder—for the sake of whatever he chose to consider as his own idea of “a good cause,” which did not even have to be an idea, since he had never defined what he regarded as the good, but had merely stated that he went by “a feeling”—a feeling unrestrained by any knowledge, since he considered emotion superior to knowledge and relied solely on his own “good intentions” and on the power of a gun.
“We are living in an era when sanity is controversial and insanity is just another viewpoint—and degeneracy only another lifestyle.”
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