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Review: Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen

Nature and the Nation

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The Second Revolution of Human Mastery and Opposition to Nature

The concept of being bound or even having any reverence for one's own nature is totally gone. So the person who wants to surgically transform themselves into a genderless alien, I'm sure you've heard of this guy, you can bet your bottom dollar he's a Democrat or at the very least he leans Democrat. That's not a Republican way to be, to completely recreate your entire body into some conceptual thing that doesn't have any place in the natural world. The second revolution of human mastery and opposition to nature as being fundamental to liberalism is where I want to direct a little bit more of my analysis of this book in that particular direction because it's also fundamental to what I'm trying

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