(Policy)
I have a long history of tolerance and compassion for the unstable, narrowly obsessed, enraged, and lost boys of the libertarian and right spectra who are all but outcast from the social, economic, and political rewards of our polities.
Noblesse Oblige does not mean we limit our obligation to those who are untroubled and untroubling – just the opposite.
If groups have no political representation because they are unfortunate, undesirable peers, compatriots, and allies, the demand upon us to serve their interests and assist in changing their state is greater than that of refinement of the lives of those more settled.
After all, while their desired solutions are almost universally as detrimental to others as the present crisis is detrimental to them – and almost always so reductively simplistic as to be impossible to either implement, operate, or persist – that does not mean that their complaints lack merit. In fact the laments of the right, libertarian, and left are all justifiable.
The age of mass media, economics, and consumption has been worse for human mindfulness, cooperation, and inclusion than was predicted by those who warned us of it when we converted from moral familial and social to economic and political measures of government success.
If you have the will to learn my work, our work, you can, with time not only obtain the mindfulness you seek, because you will understand the world, but without the submission of religion, the mysticism or buddhism, the self isolation of stoicism, or the particularism of some select philosophy or ideology.
And then you can be part of the solution that saves not just the fringes but all of us from the crisis of our age.
Affections
-CD
Source date (UTC): 2025-04-28 18:03:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916916184316055553
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