Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order (2019)

Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:42AM (#29840398)

I've gone back and forth on this. On one hand, the reverence is stifling and often mis-used. But it's also stabilizing. The fact that we've forgotten the balanced nature of our republic, and that the easiest way to remind us of that fact--which still holds merit today--is by appealing to the authority of the Founding Fathers, would be my Exhibit A to this argument.

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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by piva00 on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:37PM (#29842042)

How is that stabilising though?

It starts to sound demi-religious. You shall not disobey the word of a larger power/figure.

And then society starts to rift over time, through the interpretation by different sects about what the words meant.

Over centuries you get a pretty twisted view of the original values, interpreted by a few different sects, and an ever growing wedge between those interpretations that gets harder and harder to reconcile.

Just like most major religions.

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