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Being Non-Transactional

Aurelien
http://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/being-non-transactional

Date Written:  02/04/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

It is now clear, after decades of thrashing around, that constructing an honest society according to Liberal principles is actually impossible. So much the worse for Liberal principles, then. So where does that leave us? Well, it leaves us to reflect on why honest societies actually exist, and why more generally people obey common unwritten rules when it is not in their short-term personal interest to do so.

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It's been remarked a number of times that the turbo-liberalism of the last forty years has destroyed any capability for western nations to physically rearm and expand their defence forces. But I wonder if if at least as much damage has not been inflicted by the destruction of the very discourse of solidarity and altruism without which any amount of money, and even any amount of technology, is essentially pointless. Forty years of institutionalised selfishness, of contempt for those who work for the public good, of the deliberate promotion of an ethic of What's in it for Me, can’t be abandoned overnight in a stench of burning rubber and a 180-degree turn. The system no longer even knows how to ask for things like dedication and sacrifice with a straight face.

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