Wanted to repost this conversation bw Mary Harrington and Rafe Kelley. I finally got around to it, and, while it takes a while, by the end of the conversation, they're grappling with one of the hearts of this question of the danger/downside of liberalism, which in this case I'll define as the orientation of individual liberty and freedom as "the good."
That's a spicy, challenging topic for those of us Americans (especially) raised in the Western liberal tradition. In a lot of ways, individual freedom has replaced God (or whatever word or concept works to represent "the good" ).
Harrington is a uniquely skilled voice on this, coming at it as she does via her critique of feminism, the pill, and so on. Her position is that transhumanism (and the tyranny associated with this "freedom from nature" ) is an unavoidable output of society's aligning itself along the "individual liberty" axis.
My sense is that this sort of analysis is very very close to the heart of the character, quality, ...
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Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
Here Prof. Robert George of Princeton talks about his new book, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth. (I haven't watched this yet.) https://www.aei.org/events/seeking-truth-in-the-age-of-feeling-a-book-event/
Speaker wants teachers to radicalize high school students. This is from a 2025 Socialist conference. https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1941451696506535949
