Dont agree at All, Indyks piece never mentions personal liberty, it's all more of the same devolutionary thinking that empowers the few as elites over the many.
The US Constitution is the only Revolutionary historical document in two thousand years. Everything since, is a taking away, that places more power in the hands of the few. When was the first time you heard, current world leaders, placing their faith in the providence & practice of their own populations as free men and women?
Liberty and the degree of it active in a society is the sole arbiter of progress. There is no solution, nor will there be improvements in the lives of the globalized citizens without Liberty as a catlyst to what comes after.
Look right now at Japan, the homogenaity of that society breeds a hegemony over the population which is slowly devolving the entire country. This is the model many in the US state department and our government wish to take. Oligarchic institutions, be they labor, corporate or religious institutions, seem to be the driving force behind globalization, where our choices are relegated to the few,and powerful, mobility dictated by the political and expediant whims of a ruling class.
The problem with this thinking and it's subsequent momentum is that it does not advance mankind, it devolves it.
Liberty remains the sole defining characteristic that lifts an entire society. Until people, and those who would lead them, come to know, that only through the exercise of free thought and action, social coopertion will evolve & flourish. This metaphorical place is where peace & prosperity align to the benefit of all, where belief in respect for ones self, means respecting your neighbor.
And only at this destination will we all understand how Obsolete much of the worlds leadership has become. |
