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QUOTE=Fishpart;1046042]It’s increasingly ridiculous to use the word “liberal” to describe the modern American collectivist. There’s nothing liberal about them at all. They’re shooting for the ultimate subversion of liberty, by re-defining “liberty” as a form of compulsion. In other words, they’re saying you are being oppressed unless a wise and virtuous dictatorial authority can force other people to give you what the authoritarians have decided you “deserve.” You aren’t “free” as long as you must provide for yourself. Liberty becomes a term used to describe its exact opposite: a set of active obligations placed upon other people. It’s right up there with any perversion of language and thought described by George Orwell in “1984.” Actually, it is one of the perversions he laid at Big Brother’s feet: “Freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.”[/QUOTE]

Well said. What you describe is uncomfortably obvious. But for many, if not most, it is also too uncomfortable to discuss. It is like some indomitable bogeyman that can only be avoided by looking the other way. Or by creating pleasant fictions on how the "virtuous" dictatorial authoritarians will make us a better world if only we would stop harassing them with notions of freedom or individual liberty or personal responsibility. And for God's sake (or god's sake or goodness sake) stop harping about a form of government which has been outraced by time.

We have somehow supposedly arrived at a time and place where liberty or freedom are beyond our individual grasp and beyond our consent to be governed by a servile State which is limited as set forth in a description of its powers written on ancient parchment. A time and place where, as Spence might say, a piece of paper is no different than a pizza.

A time and place where a plethora of uniquely evolved individuals are too much of a burden on "society." A time and place where the Wilsonian progressive notion of society functioning as a well ordered bee hive is the model to emulate. A time and place where the masses must be schooled and instructed to fit in their proper place in the hive. Eventually, those who don't fit into the prescribed compartments will have to be cared for, in whatever manner is affordable to society, and provided with, or forced to take freely provided contraception so as not to overburden the order and function of the collective responsibilities.

A time and place, however, which opposes its own concept of science and evolution. It purports to be a time and place that broke from the notion of some creative design to one that evolved to the present by accident through a Darwinian like evolution. And now the accident of science will be the tool by which we create the time and place of our choosing. Somehow, these progressive ideologies will be the intelligent designers of our time and place . . . of our being. In contradiction to the whole notion that intelligent design is some absurd creative beginning, progressive ideology has turned its own notions upside down and will somehow end the evolutionary process by designing a perpetual utopia.

It will, of course, fail through the very evolutionary process in which it claims to believe. The thing about evolution and the dialectic process, as long as there is being, it never ends.

And that founding piece of paper differs from a pizza in that it was intelligently designed to provide for the time and place where individuals can continuously evolve as a society.