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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (26785)8/18/2006 12:13:37 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 543248
 
I said: Sounds like 19th century liberalism to me. And with the same philosophical problems.

You said: Dunno what problems you have in mind. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

The biggest, largest, most fundamental is that it starts in the wrong place. We are fundamentally connected to others: we are born that way, our wellbeing or lack thereof is largely a function of that. It's something we have no choice about. As we grow older, we can, to some degree, select the contexts in which that plays out. But its fact is simply one of the givens of the human condition.

Nineteenth century liberalism starts with our disconnect from others and makes a non-existent into a virtue. When it becomes the reigning and sole ideology in economics, you get, of course, great disasters: the worst sort of booms and busts. The nineteenth and early twentieth century saw more than their share of such. And we may get one or two or three given the changing fortunes of that economic ideology at the moment.
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