[ExI] extropy-chat Digest, Vol 129, Issue 19

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 15:29:03 UTC 2014


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>   You don't seem to understand liberalism.
>>
>
> ### Hey, didn't we just talk about "leftism", not "liberalism"?
>
> I understand "liberalism" very well, including the meandering of its
> meaning throughout the history of memetic warfare between various
> intellectual subspecies of humans.
>
> In the end, liberalism as it was understood when the term was coined, is
> about humility, not "social services" or even good intentions. It'a pity
> that humility seems to have gone out of fashion a long time ago.
>
> Rafal
>  ​I can't find humility anywhere in liberalism:  civil rights, equality,
> free elections and so on, but not humility.  Ben
>
Franklin said that he could not attain that questionable virtue and neither
can I, though I am not arrogant either.  What is the use of being humble
and diffident?  I believe what has been proved and what agrees with my
moral code, and if new data come in I change my opinion.  I'd call it
assertive.  I'd never act as if I were right and everyone else was wrong.
(Occasionally I may think so privately!) Of course, what I know, or think I
know is such a tiny part of all knowledge that I am humble in some way
about that.

And I do think good intentions go along with wanting freedoms for all
peoples.  I object to the term 'bleeding heart' for people who care.  That
sort of comment usually comes from Social Darwinists.  Yes, there can be
too much of it, of anything.

bill w

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