
Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed
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The Challenge That We Face as We Have This Ideology of the Self Making Self
The self is really m ultimately, i think, i think you are right to describe that we need these kinds of ets. We have largely disssembled the institutions that in a way served as the kind of training ground for those and if i don't put it this way, going back to something we were saying earlier, that the upper classes have largely been able, in some ways, to create new forms of those institutions. These institutions used to be a lot more galetarian. It used to be simply a part of the fabric of social life. And the kind of breakdowno has made it extremely difficult for people who are stru ing at the margins of our economy to do things
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