Liberalism generates human magnificence. It fundamentally enhances and uplifts you. It makes you smart, good, and strong. And it yields pleasure, excitement, exhilaration, ecstasy, and joy.
Liberalism lets and makes you live your richest, fullest, best life. Your most meaningful and purposeful one. Your greatest and happiest one. Consistently following liberal philosophy builds and creates a wonderful, marvelous, awesome, stunning person and existence.
Liberalism produces a great society too. It generates the richest culture and highest level of civilization. The philosophy of liberalism results in immense social harmony and cooperation, as well as pervasive cohesion and unity.
Liberalism focuses overwhelmingly on the Individual. This lets and makes every member of society thrive, prosper, maximize his potential, and fulfill his destiny.
In this day and age, you should clarify what you mean by "liberalism."
ReplyDeleteDarrell -- True, but practically this whole secret blog is dedicated to liberalism, as is myself. So most readers already know what the word means. I'm the strongest liberal thinker in the history of man.
DeleteBut in simple terms, liberalism can be explained or defined as: the epistemology of reason, the ethics of individualism, and the politics of freedom. More fully, neoliberalism can be characterized as: the epistemology of reason, rationality, logic, and science; the metaphysics of naturalism and objective truth, the ethics of individualism, self-interest, and personal happiness; the politics of liberty, justice, and individual rights; the aesthetics of the beautiful, vivacious, dynamic, and heroic; the spirituality of the sublime, transcendent, infinite, and triumphant.
Liberalism is the updated, or new and improved, version of 1700s classical liberalism -- the thought-system and life-style of the upper class of England, Holland, France, Scotland, and America during the Age of Reason and The Enlightenment.
Neoliberalism began with the Austrian economic thinkers of the late 1800s and early 1900s; it magnificently flowered with the Objectivist philosophical thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s; it became widespread and semi-popular with the libertarian political thinkers of the 1980s and afterwards.
All three groups of related ideas and intellectuals have risen in popular acceptance and influence massively over the last few decades or so; amazingly, all three today are considered mostly respectable as philosophical viewpoints; and, have no doubt, all three will possibly soon dominate the world.