Interesting essay, but it seems to miss the Jupiter-sized problem at the core of this global turbulence:
Power is power.
Power doesn't care who has it or how they got it. Power creates winners and losers. Power kills people while the survivors divvy up the former possessions.
Power doesn't play by the rules. Power is the rule.
Liberalism only works if enough people and power agree to let it work. Authoritarians of today want to smash this liberalism precisely because a world without rules on power benefits their style of acquiring and using power.
Only power beats power. Power cares little for meaningless terms like good and evil, if it even cares at all.
Power is power.
Power doesn't care who has it or how they got it. Power creates winners and losers. Power kills people while the survivors divvy up the former possessions.
Power doesn't play by the rules. Power is the rule.
Liberalism only works if enough people and power agree to let it work. Authoritarians of today want to smash this liberalism precisely because a world without rules on power benefits their style of acquiring and using power.
Only power beats power. Power cares little for meaningless terms like good and evil, if it even cares at all.