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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 French revolution operated on assumptions much closer to those of the vision of the anointed. Where the American revolution deliberately created a government of elaborate checks and balances, to constrain the evils inherent in human beings, the French revolution concentrated vast powers in its leadership, so as to allow those who were presumably wise and benevolent to effect sweeping changes with little hindrance. Condorcet, as an intellectual supporter of the French revolution, could see no reason for the American system of checks and balances, in which society was to be “jostled between opposing powers” or to be held back by the “inertia” of its constitution. Indeed, even after the revolutionaries turned against him and threw him into prison, Condorcet still seemed not to understand the reason for limitations on government power.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
Cooks Aktivisten »löschen« jetzt aus ihrer Erhebung 66 Prozent der »neutralen Studien« heraus, diese gehen fortan nicht mehr in die Bewertung ein. Unter den verbliebenen 4014 Beiträgen finden sie plötzlich nur noch 118 Positionen, die sich explizit gegen die These des anthropogenen Klimawandels stellen. Et voilà: Die »Einigkeit von 97 Prozent aller Wissenschaftler« pro anthropogener Klimakrise wurde bewiesen.
Vom Verlust Der Freiheit
Raymond Unger
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