How can we expect people to be moral when the prevailing philosophy is existential, deconstructionist and postmodern which has no absolute ethic and even eschews ethics from its philosophy? What even is morality in such a society?
Have you read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand? If yes, you might remember this moment of Hank Rearden's enlightenment: "He lay still, alone in the silence of his office. He knew that the meaning of his mills had ceased to exist, and the fullness of the knowledge left no room for the pain of regretting an illusion. He had seen, in a final image, the soul and essence of his enemies: the mindless face of the thug with the club. It was not the face itself that made him draw back in horror, but the professors, the philosophers, the moralists, the mystics who had released that face upon the world."
Ayn Rand firmly believed that philosophy shapes human action. I agree with that and frequently quote her on this one: "The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy’s impotence, but the proof of philosophy’s power. It is philosophy that has brought men to this state – it is only philosophy that can lead them out."
and these are just articles published in the last two weeks.
In general, Mises is pro individual liberty, pro-immigration, anti-war, and generally critical of both the Left and the Right. I fail to see how they are "ultra-conservative".
Besides. This comment is just an ad-hominem and fails to address that actual argument of the article.
They are critical of the Right because they believe the Right isn't "right" enough.
>I fail to see how they are "ultra-conservative".
Well let's go through it then, from your first link:
>Yet we can’t be blind to the realities of modern politics — Washington is dominated by progressive ideology in both parties.
Following that link, we get some real beauties.
>•Progressives overwhelmingly control both major political parties in the US;
>•Progressives control the federal judiciary, along with all federal departments and agencies;
>•Major corporations, both global and domestic, are run by progressives. Their boards are progressives. Their corporate branding and messaging is progressive;
>•Wall Street is progressive;
>Of course progressivism virtually always means left progressivism. While there are right-wing progressives (neoconservatives) with grandiose ideas about government and human nature, most of them came from and will comfortably return to the Left when it suits them.
>Let’s be clear about supposed conservatives like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, & company: they're all progressives. Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are progressive.
>Every realistic, potential, or actual threat to liberty in the western world today results directly from progressives policies.
This took me all of two clicks. Let's not pretend the Mises institute is something it's not.
