There is no need here to refer to John Locke or Adam Smith, in fact it is sacrilege to recall the names of the classics in order to compare them with the present state of liberalism. It is not necessary to even try to remember Karl Popper, because today, from the attempt to define man and place him in the context of nature in order to improve his future and achieve prosperity and freedom, there is a merry-go-round of madmen trying to scream out reality with half-animal onomatopoeia, claiming they are better, enlightened, wiser in everything.
This is not just a Polish problem, although yes, the pretext for this small toast to the still-open grave of Western liberalism is the cover of “Newsweek” on which a respectable group of journalistic elites reveal that the election will be rigged by the right-wing ruling party, and a man is proof of that saying so. Indeed, there is nothing left of logical arguments, liberal rationalism, learning about the world through empiricism, only cheap batons, gloomy grunts against conservatives, defenders of national identity or traditional family in the name of progress, Jasnaburg, supposed historical inevitability. When something goes wrong with liberalism, the leaders of the progress camp, instead of the quarrels and deliberations of past generations, jump and screech like monkeys, though they are monkeys in suits, happy with each other’s company.
Not only do they have no arguments, they don’t even make any mental effort to find arguments anymore. Oxford professor Jan Zielonka warned his liberal European friends a few years ago that a sense of superiority over the right is not enough to save the world. He also argued that one cannot blame all the progressives’ failures on the evil and unjust populists. These calls were of no avail – since then every victory of the Western right has been seen as a Russian conspiracy, the immaturity of society, an industrial accident, the failure of a liberal leader, temporary difficulties, a reactionary episode. Yes, and now, the liberal threat of the prospect of PiS rigging the election is just one part of the monkey circus – that if “progress” loses again, it will be through fraud, for after all, not through its inertia.
Liberalism today is just a pathological family that lives off the achievements of dynamic ancestors: they have an ideology that cracks under the pressure of modernity, they have great financial and media resources, they manage institutions and have a great sign of modernity and orthodoxy, but they have consumed all these assets in the belief that their capabilities will self-determine somehow will regenerate .
And so the EU’s liberal summits, despite the drama of Brexit, only expressed a pro-ecological promise for the future, after a quarter of a century of building Nord Stream 2, they froze in horror when it emerged that they had committed the genocide in Funded Ukraine with a so-called economic project, where they had written “human rights” on the banner, whether to raise the price of gas or allow the rape of women and the abduction of children by the Russian occupier.
Whether liberalism was sterile from the start and was only allowed to shine for a moment like a supernova, or whether the successors to the classics turned out to be failures and hubris on a historical scale – I don’t know. However, it can be seen that liberalism is just coming to an end, repeating some old mantras about tolerance, barely keeping up with the pace of left social engineering, not understanding the conservative critique, starting to crumble from within, not dealing with the fundamental challenges of reality, see no contradictions between its own ends and means.
The degradation will continue, the successive authorities will become more and more stupid, although their pomposity will become more and more bizarre, their logic will be more and more violated. No, ladies and gentlemen, idiotic covers, flat-earth plots, loud demonstrations with vulgar slogans and professors emphasizing some liberal phrases are not exceptions to liberal wisdom, but symptoms of an intellectual crisis of the mainstream. Soon ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive’ will mean a retarded blockhead, moreover content with his ignorance hoisted to the mast.
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Source: wPolityce