Q: Curt: Isn’t classical liberalism anti-scientific?)
Classical Liberalism, an evolution of anglo saxon culture and norman administration, was invented by enland and implemented by the USA with its written constitution and is the most scientific government ever produced by man. (markets calculate, all american is common constitution and law under that constitutino at least prior to the 1960s is therefore scientific). Instead, if you mean Christian optimism has been anti-scientific because of the failures of the limits of that system then that would be true.
But classical liberals were as likely to be in the skeptical class (hobbs, hamilton, ) as they were in the optimistic class (locke, jefferson). They weren’t of a single mind. At the time of the ascent of the british empire and the american continent the optimism was perhaps warranted as it allowed maximization of the then-set of opportunities.
We have of course exhausted those opportunities, and found that the inclusion of the feminine (jews, muslims, women) in to the economy and polity, as well as, possibly, the lower classes and immigrants, that these people resist the western germanic anglo american demand for individual responsibility for private and common. Women will avoid responsibilty at all costs, even responsibilty for truth before face. This is enabling of all the rent seekers and parasites that are antithetical to western civilization.
Americans, especially the anglos, were seeking to leave behind ‘the parsitism and corruption of the aristocracy, the church, and the peasantry. And the new england colonies were for all intents and purposes eugenicists. Which is why the progressive movement and eugenics movement evolved out of the north.
That’s despite that the south is the reserve of aristocratic character and perhaps, just as the USA is the most western of western civilization, the south was the most anglo-saxon of the americans and most western of the western nations.
Which is interesting given that today the south is the reserve of western civilization, reserve of rule of law of natura law, and the reserve of christianity. Meanwhile the north – in no small part to catholic displacement of protestants, but retention of protestant academic institutions and laws, and has become, especially after the jewish migration post war into NY and the NE, the center of irresponsibility (leftism), and california (due to migratory patterns) the geography where leftism was most easily advanced, im posed, and now destroys western civilization despite the geographic utility of the california coast.
Cheers.
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