Liberalism, in all the aspects I have encountered it today, seems to sour the relationship between individual and society. I guess its a new form of puritinism, whatever you want t call it. But the thing that makes it bad, is that it takes away the incentive for the goodwill from individuals, and instead, makes it mandatory...
its like people were to demand you to give them a gift for their birthday. If you reduce the goodwill to a social contract, where everyone is bitter and demands that you give back to the society, the individual immidietly has a distaste to such an atmosphere, and therefore his giving back, or what yo uwould generally call 'goodwill', dies inside of him, and turns into an “appearance” of giving back, making the endeavour hypocritical, and souring the way he views others in his community privately ---such a society isn't welcoming or accepting, and therefore people are generally bitter, contrived and hypocritical....
2006-11-15
17:22:58
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