"Shifting" Past the Post-WWII Consensus

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Liberalism doesn't have an account for unity. It's all about ideas. It's also based upon individual freedom. And individualism does not a society, make. We need reasons to be together. We need reasons for me to consider you my neighbor and not a stranger. Like, there has to be something that binds us. And I think that like you said, Christianity played that role for a while and then a kind of Nationalism played that role, also for a while, but that Nationalism that was completely unmoored from Christianity is what led also to the great wars. ...

There's something about Christianity and Empire that is actually more flexible than Nation. Because Empire has a way to have a loose affiliation to center right so you have some... it's like you have Rome as the center, and you have the Emperor. But it's like if you're in Gaul. It's like your connection to the Emperor is very symbolic, right? It's very ritualized, but it still functions, makes you feel like you're part of something. But it also leaves room for a lot of variation and transformation. One of the things that happened in the modern Nation State is of course a mistaking, or a confusion between unity and uniformity, Right? So you see all the stories, right? So basically, Napoleon eliminates all of the local languages and just imposes French top down, education system top down, a top down bureaucracy that completely is ruled by the by the central thing. And it's already there even in the Enlightenment Kings, right? It's like this, everything is just this top down uniformity. But ancient worlds were just a dance between unity and multiplicity, right? They were dances between adaptation to the local space, and local languages, and local dialects. But then our elites still know Latin, right? But I don't have to know Latin, can speak whatever romance language I speak. But as long as the bishop and the priest know Latin, there's some connection to a unity, right? And so I think that that is a better way. I don't know how to live that out in the modern world. But what I mean is that you can see that we've radicalized identity, and that's one of the things that led to this fascist-communist opposition, is that it's like uniformity or flatness.

There's another aspect of, maybe it's insignificant now but one thing I have noticed over the last 5-10 years is that terms like Nazism were so overused that no one really believes it anymore. Well, a lot of people no longer believe, it doesn't have the edge that it did because everything's called Nazi. But I say that as a little glimmer of hope that maybe things are moving in a positive way.

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