
Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed
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Is There a Conflicting Impulse in Human Beings?
I do think there is two conflicting impulses in human beings. We have a desire to be free, but we also want someone who knows better than i do what's good for me. And our culture, increase only is tolerant of all choices. Anything you do, as long as it's your choice and it feels right to you, that that is to be honored. I look at part of the failure of my philosophy to influence the world more than it does because people don't really want make their own choices so much. You could say we have the worst of classical liberalism and the worst of progressive liberalism combined there.
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