Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Dr. Phil TRIGGERS Bill Maher Into Meltdown After Refusing To Share Trump Derangement Syndrome!" video.

  1. By "classical" liberal, you mean a non-woke liberal, to me. Phil says it's not politics that "determines the outcome of society, it's culture". The "outcome of society" is an odd expression to my sense of English! Culture is a depository of social activity through time. It is culture that provides every society with its resistance to deviation from norms; it has a stabilizing effect on society. Politics is public society, in general, and, specifically, having to do with authority in the public sphere. The idea of society having an outcome is...clumsy--I can't DO anything with it. What "outcome"? Culture impels social movement as persistence in prescribed norms, which is them challenged by the young. This conflict vitalizes society towards improvement, change, ideally, as long as matters of legality are carefully attended. The process is continuous, while "outcome" suggests a completed state. Politics, as the exercise of authority in the public sphere, greatly affects the movements of society, in a completely different way than culture.
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  2. Maher requires the TDS loyalty test! How obnoxious!
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