The American Right Grows Up
Auron MacIntyre, The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies, Regnery, 2024, 208 pp. The American Right talks about power, realism, and human nature. It acts politically like a naïve child. The American Left talks about equality, empathy, and...
Yeah, to your specific point about the people making the decisions having to know the pain inflicted by their choices, I think of Heinlein and service-based citizenship.
However, regarding the overall broken and diseased system, yeah, I don’t really see a way out but through... it probably involves a lot of people de-banking and forming parallel systems that operate in an autonomous, self-contained and self-sustaining manner and just naturally growing those out - just my gut feeling
A man of culture.
I am glad to see the discourse start to reach towards feeling for plans and/or ideologies to see us through.