Liberal Allies

 

Everyone is a liberal. Or at least everyone good. And it’s been this way for 2600 years now. Liberalism is a philosophy of simple reason and common sense. Its truth and goodness are obvious and undeniable.

All conservatives at least partially believe in and practice liberalism. So do all progressives. The better a person is – the more intellectually honest, brave, educated, and astute – the more likely he subscribes and adheres to large elements of liberalism.

In epistemology, conservatives believe in faith, dogma, and religion. Progressives believe in relativism, subjectivism, and nihilism. Liberals believe in reason, science, and reality. But, ultimately, nobody entirely rejects reason, science, and reality. They don’t dare. And the more clear-thinking and high-character you are, the more you generally follow the liberal epistemological line.

Pure illiberalism doesn’t exist. A belief in pure irrationality and untruth simply isn’t possible. Utter nonsense is never a thought-system of man. Pure evil destroys itself and makes itself non-existent. Hence there’s always a fair amount of doubt and disloyalty when it comes to believing in and practicing the wretched epistemologies of conservatism and progressivism. Even if they don’t know or admit it, everyone substantially thinks and acts in accord with liberal epistemology.

In ethics, conservatives believe in living for and serving god, progressives believe in living for and serving the collective, and liberals believe in living for and serving the Sacred Self. But belief in god and the collective is so false and evil that that virtually nobody fully does so. Pretty much everyone believes in the immense value of themselves and their own life. Hence everybody – partially or mostly – follows along with liberal ethics too.

It's the same with metaphysics, politics, esthetics, and spirituality. No-one in existence is fully opposed to natural reality and objective truth, liberty and justice, beauty and heroism, transcendence and triumph. Conservatives and progressives might find these values and ideals to be limited, naive, and overly simplistic. They might consider them to be shallow concepts, lacking in sufficient subtlety and nuance. They might think their sophisticated and complex philosophies go above and beyond all this. But nobody disbelieves in these liberal concepts entirely. And the higher quality a person and thinker they are, the less they deviate away from them.

So liberals can always appeal to the better nature of their conservative and progressive counterparts and intellectual opponents. The quiet fact is that all persons are at least somewhat liberal in their thought-system. Even the monsters of religious or political fanaticism. Hence, liberals can at least partially win any debate. Nobody opposes them completely.

So as much as the Dark Age world of today seems horrific and dismal – with about 99% of all Westerners solidly believing in the philosophies of conservatism or progressivism – the reality is: liberals can find partial allies and decent hope everywhere they turn.