Serious question: how does a society balance liberty and security in a Western Civilization tradition of classical liberal democracy built on individual agency and religious tolerance? Certainly not in the form of a neo-fascist-liberal Patriot Act framework?
Is it possible?
Plato and Aristotle argued greatly for what should become of the restoration of Athens after the collapse of social order at the hands of Sparta. And Cicero mourning the loss of the Roman Republic.
What say we? And who are our conquerors? Ourselves? Jacques Lacan would have a field day with that one… I am become societal suicide. The nihilists win?
You clearly love Israel more than America so my question to you is why the f*** are you not in Israel instead of in America.
Serious question: how does a society balance liberty and security in a Western Civilization tradition of classical liberal democracy built on individual agency and religious tolerance? Certainly not in the form of a neo-fascist-liberal Patriot Act framework?
Is it possible?
Plato and Aristotle argued greatly for what should become of the restoration of Athens after the collapse of social order at the hands of Sparta. And Cicero mourning the loss of the Roman Republic.
What say we? And who are our conquerors? Ourselves? Jacques Lacan would have a field day with that one… I am become societal suicide. The nihilists win?
Sorry Alan, feeling very jaded tonight.