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- - - - Liberalism
        
        Political manifestation of is
        
        Economic manifestation is
        
        Capitalism
        
        Economics: the science of choices in a world where resources are scarce, and humans are rational maximisers of their own self interests
        
        Adam Smith: When self interested people pursue selfish ends it creates efficiencies in the free market which maximise utility for everyone
        
        Utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham)
        
        example of
        
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        Moral philosopher Alisdair Macintyre in his 1968 book Christianity and Marxism observed that capitalist society engages a full pedagogical machinery to manufacture the sort of political subjects and moral bodies that are capable of succeeding within capitalism. We do not, it seems to me, naturally thrive within capitalism, we need to be remade to come to value the practices and dispositions that have, for nearly all of human history, were great vices (namely lack of self control).
        
        Classic Liberalism
        
        Meritocracy
        
        "The drunkard in the gutter is exactly where he ought to be"
        
        Modern Liberalism
        
        Neoliberalism
        
        Liberty
      - threat to
      - Threat to
        
        COVID-19
        
        conspiracies inflamed by
      - Threatened by
        
        Technology
        
        Social Media
        
        surveillance capitalism
        
        GAFA Tetrarchy
        
        The problem of bigness (which Kant called 'the sublime', and which Louis Brandeis in 1912 referred to as 'the evil of bigness')
        
        a democratic threat: a megopoly of vast corporate entities that are ‘too big to fail’ and which unassailably control our lives in ways that are unimaginable to us, and which prevent us exerting a sense of agency over our lives. Crucially, corporate megopoloies are unelected and are, therefore, unimpeachable. They control our knowledge ecosystems, they are the puppeteer to our lives. They are no longer just too big to fail, but we also confronting phenomenon that are too big to control, and therefore too big to resist.
        
        Coercing us by
        
        intimate but mostly unnoticed symbiosis with a nonhuman mind, whose coercive thought and will mix so thoroughly with our own that we can hardly tell where one ends and the other begins.
        
        Imposes on our
        
        Free will
  - - - threatened by language
        
        So much can be couched as a human rights claim that it threatens to subsume entirely the habits and practices of democratic deliberation; or at least on issues where we hold the moral substance of people in our hands, for example the Voice to parliament issue in Australia. On issues such as these we sharpen our deliberations to the extent that they are not convenient or relaxed, and run the risk of isolating or curtailing that which is personal in political deliberations. The issues become so laden with morally inflected language, that the rights become Rights with a capital R and the spectrum of acceptable disagreement on them is narrowed so much as to threaten democracy itself.