Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Critical Based Theory #9 | The march of neoliberalism" video.

  1. Guys, we figured out the balance of Welfare State and Free Market by trial and error. It's kind of what the Cold War is about. Both laissez-faire capitalism, and its antithesis communism, are at this point about equivalent to Monarchism -- a quaint historical idea. We have determined that the best way to use industrialization to produce and distribute goods, is the market-economic welfare state. Where is the current state of the dialectic? Well, it looks to me like Fukuyama's "liberty-minded democracy" is getting challenged by "authoritarian bureaucracy" both domestically and internationally. Brexit, populism, the powers of government officials during an epidemic, a new rivalry with China -- all of these are currently being debated. The sooner we understand that this is where the dialog truly is, the sooner we can develop a strategy to make sure that Authoritarian Bureaucracy does not win. The proper way to frame yesterday's question was, "How do we best use industrialization to produce and distribute goods?" Today's question ought to be, "How do we harness expertise in the service of a free people?"
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  2.  @patrykhaber2565  Um, every major economy in the world is a combination of welfare state and free market. The last serious challenge to the Welfare State in America was Social Security reform in 2006 under George W Bush, and that went nowhere. NHS is practically worshiped as a replacement for Christianity, in England. Please take a moment from fighting yesterday's battles, and put at least some efforts into fighting *today*'s battles. From Brussels to Beijing, bureaucrats are relentlessly attacking liberty and subsidiarity, not just in terms of economics but in terms of speech and thought itself. London and Washington are infected as well. The Cambridge Five have metastasized into five thousand, at least. It pains me to say it, but we may need another Joe McCarthy before this is done. Out-of-control administrative structures, from government to medical NGOs to universities to social media companies to HR departments, are tearing down freedoms and reducing humans and human activities to a series of checkboxes. The free market is only one front in this wider war. Yesterday's allies (like corporations) have turned on us. Yesterday's enemies (freedom-oriented Liberals) are being pushed out of their old groups, to join our ranks. We're in a new phase of history now. The Long March through the Institutions was almost complete, only derailed at the last second by Brexit and Trump. History is on the move again. Anyone who loves liberty needs to reassess the situation we're actually in, to have any hope of preserving it.
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