Sunday, 6 February 2011
Muscular liberalism?
Muscular liberalism? Muscular Christianity I'm aware of, and Muscular Conservatism I could understand, but isn't Muscular Liberalism a bit like strong spaghetti or robust cowardice, a contradiction in terms? Social liberalism has always meant an absence of moral standards and controls. I'm confused.
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Muscular liberalism would be a strong and determined fight for freedom. A fight against domination by the sate or the rich and powerful. A fight against arbitrary or religion-based laws which try to control people's lives.
Agree with Don. I just hope somebody somewhere is preparing to take a machete to the vast majority of the 3000+ laws we've had imposed over the past 13 years or so, so that the country can return a a more common sense based society
Personally, my own confusion about this case fills me with delight!
That's because, nowadays, 'liberal' means whatever the speaker says it means; so deconstructionism has rendered the word oxymoronic and multi-moronic at the same time!
Furthermore, the speaker in the present case is congenitally confused: so his every utterance is confused - whether by accident or design. So no audience should be able to make sense of it....
Indeed it's an oxymoron, to be sure.
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