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s04e77 | How the West was Undone, with Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)

Calmversations

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Is There a Universal Aspect to Being Human?

Liberalism is the abstracted doctrine of english political tradition. That's what we're dealing with. And that egely firmly grounds in a particular place, particular time, particular people. So this means that we actually need think of ourselves as particular people in a particular time,. With particular customs. And it turns out that liberals are being overlaid with french assumptions. These come from rousseau. Rousseau believed in god as well. But locke thought god was important. We sacrifice our rights when we come together into a society. In exchange, they forego their right to build steel and hurt us. The american boomers have a habit of saying, you're turning the

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