Corinthians, it was once said, worshipped at the tomb of the unknown god.
Liberals, with their implacable certitude worship at the tomb of the unknown principle; they’d be prepared to die for their beliefs, if only they knew what they were.
Liberalism arose in response to the enmities born of difference. One version of the ‘unknown principle’ charge says that liberals can’t make up their minds whether theirs is a ground-level ideology, on a par with beliefs like Islam or a meta-ideology which aims to glide above the wash of vying assorted credos.
The best to be hoped for in politics, most of the time, is a modus vivendi between different ideologies and ways of life, some liberal, some conservative, some neither.
Liberals, with their implacable certitude worship at the tomb of the unknown principle; they’d be prepared to die for their beliefs, if only they knew what they were.
Liberalism arose in response to the enmities born of difference. One version of the ‘unknown principle’ charge says that liberals can’t make up their minds whether theirs is a ground-level ideology, on a par with beliefs like Islam or a meta-ideology which aims to glide above the wash of vying assorted credos.
The best to be hoped for in politics, most of the time, is a modus vivendi between different ideologies and ways of life, some liberal, some conservative, some neither.
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