This oped piece fantastically summarizes the liberal agenda. This superiority and scorn for Americans is exactly what obama embraces. How many times have we heard we are just not smart enough to understand? This is what the wall street protestors want, is removal of personal responsibility for their lot in life and to take from those who have succeeded.
This kind of belief does not survive real world applications. It was tried with the 60s cults, it was tried with other nation's governments. It is the polar opposite of what makes America great. More than any nation, we embrace our individualism and our ability to define our futures. No government, even obama and his minions, can change that.
Warren’s statement is a footnote to modern liberalism’s more comprehensive disparagement of individualism and the reality of individual autonomy. A particular liberalism, partly incubated at Harvard, intimates the impossibility, for most people, of self-government — of the ability to govern one’s self. This liberalism postulates that, in the modern social context, only a special few people can literally make up their own minds.
Because such tutelary government must presume the public’s incompetence, it owes minimal deference to people’s preferences. These preferences are not really “theirs,” because the preferences derive from false, meaning imposed, consciousness. This convenient theory licenses the enlightened vanguard, the political class, to exercise maximum discretion in wielding the powers of the regulatory state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ial-contract/2011/10/04/gIQAXi5VOL_story.html
This kind of belief does not survive real world applications. It was tried with the 60s cults, it was tried with other nation's governments. It is the polar opposite of what makes America great. More than any nation, we embrace our individualism and our ability to define our futures. No government, even obama and his minions, can change that.
Warren’s statement is a footnote to modern liberalism’s more comprehensive disparagement of individualism and the reality of individual autonomy. A particular liberalism, partly incubated at Harvard, intimates the impossibility, for most people, of self-government — of the ability to govern one’s self. This liberalism postulates that, in the modern social context, only a special few people can literally make up their own minds.
Because such tutelary government must presume the public’s incompetence, it owes minimal deference to people’s preferences. These preferences are not really “theirs,” because the preferences derive from false, meaning imposed, consciousness. This convenient theory licenses the enlightened vanguard, the political class, to exercise maximum discretion in wielding the powers of the regulatory state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ial-contract/2011/10/04/gIQAXi5VOL_story.html