The Liberal Lifestyle

 

Your life is greater and happier if you guide it by liberalism. It’s even better if most of your family and friends follow the philosophy of liberalism too. It’s best of all if large numbers of your neighbors, coworkers, hometown, country, and mankind are also liberal.

But it’s hard or impossible to find or make this type of society today. “Changing the world”, “saving the planet”, and converting humanity to liberalism is immensely difficult and unrewarding. And it takes you away from your real goal in life which is changing, saving, and converting yourself.

Your main job in life is clearly improving and uplifting your own person. Almost everyone else you should let alone, ignore, and forget about. They’re mostly irrelevant to your achievement, pleasure, prosperity, and flourishing. So you should just let them “go to hell” in their own way – which they almost always do anyway.

The good news on all this is as a mostly-free adult you are almost completely within your own power. People mostly can’t hurt you or force you down the path of illiberalism. As adults, they rarely even want to. And yet, if you’re a solidly-knowledgeable liberal, you can often semi-guide and help those closest to you, such as your family and friends. You can partially educate and enlighten them. This moderate alteration might well enhance your own level of greatness and happiness.

But even if you can’t much increase the level of liberalism in your family, friends, and immediate social circle – or even if you don’t much want to – you can still choose to surround yourself with a relatively-liberal, already-existing, social milieu and environment. You can immerse yourself in beneficial and fun liberal entertainment, art, culture, activities, socializing, and work. This lets you live a significantly better life.