Deeper than that- it was tied to having skin in the game rather than being a rootless globalist with no ties to anything that would make you care about positive outcomes for other people. The only kind of individualism they want is solitary loners with no aspirations beyond consooming and obeying The Authority.
The irony of it all was many of the ideas of the 90s classical liberalism; human rights, toleration, freedom of expression, etc. came about because of our millennia of Christian tradition and thought.* The classical liberal's system of morali- excuse me, ethics, more likely than not came from Christianity too since these 40-somethings and older either grew up going to church or lived in communities where most everyone was going to church.
Here's the kicker. Barring maybe one or two, they don't realize the importance Christianity has had to the development of their deeply held ideas, and just how much damage is happening to those ideas because of our civilization's shift away from Christianity.
This is why Lindsay doesn't engage with anyone to the right of him anymore. He'll get caught in a dialectic of deconstructing liberalism, which scares him so he gatekeeps.
everything james lindsay loves causes everything james lindsay hates. This is the inevitable progression of his beloved 90s liberal atheism.
Im debating whether marxism or feminism is more to blame.
And I'm starting to conclude that the real problem is paying any attention whatsoever to people with no demonstrable skills or accomplishments.
Unfortunately we are in it so deep that I dont think things can be unwrapped short of a global collapse.
Same reason why voting was tied to land ownership - owning land was correlated with not being a total fuckup.
Deeper than that- it was tied to having skin in the game rather than being a rootless globalist with no ties to anything that would make you care about positive outcomes for other people. The only kind of individualism they want is solitary loners with no aspirations beyond consooming and obeying The Authority.
The irony of it all was many of the ideas of the 90s classical liberalism; human rights, toleration, freedom of expression, etc. came about because of our millennia of Christian tradition and thought.* The classical liberal's system of morali- excuse me, ethics, more likely than not came from Christianity too since these 40-somethings and older either grew up going to church or lived in communities where most everyone was going to church.
Here's the kicker. Barring maybe one or two, they don't realize the importance Christianity has had to the development of their deeply held ideas, and just how much damage is happening to those ideas because of our civilization's shift away from Christianity.
*Please excuse the simplification
This is why Lindsay doesn't engage with anyone to the right of him anymore. He'll get caught in a dialectic of deconstructing liberalism, which scares him so he gatekeeps.