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Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed

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Is It a False Conception That We Make Ourself?

i agree that our sense of self as the tabulariss o blank slates, clearly is just a fantasy, an illusion. i think there's something to it, which is, ok, weve had all these institutions before e. The family was stronger, a ore, people religious, a local community and norms imposed by that community were much more powerful. But those were bad institutions. They were patriarchal, they were sexes, they were races, they were homophobic. We have to, we had to get rid of those, because all the liberation that they promised and able to achieve were only for a small set of people. And it's better now. Of course, it's imperfect

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