Liberalism...on the down low

     Liberalism was a wager of titanic proportions, a wager that ancient norms of behavior could be abolished in the name of a new form of liberation and that the conquest of nature would supply the fuel that would permit near-infinite choices. Accordingly, a liberal dominated culture can function only by the constant increase of available and consumable material goods and satisfactions, and thus by constantly expanding humanity’s conquest and mastery of nature.

     The twin outcomes of this effort, the depletion of moral self-command and the depletion of material resources, make inevitable an inquiry into what comes after liberalism.  True perhaps, but while we linger, our market liberalism has spawned a wave of “expressivism” where life is about recreating reality according to our subjective will.