DEMOCRACY AND ENLIGHTENMENT THE IRONY THIS IS NOT SELF CORRECTION BABY

The great irony is that, as the Enlightenment unfolded, it told ever increasingly against the very liberties, anti clericalism, science, and above all democracy, with which it had begun.

 

Democracy is ultimately the last type of government an enlightened person should want.

 

Lippmann's agonized flopping back and forth on the intellectual deck, throughout his long career, is a locus classicus of this insoluble underlying problem.

I like to cite equally illustrious pundits for these purposes, ram the one up the other's ass:

Monday, December 11, 2017

RAIL TO RAIL LIBERAL IDEOLOGY SCHLESINGER ON LIPPMANN

"The Intellectual v. Politics"

 

Great, blow by blow, chronology of the travails of liberal philosophy in the 20th Century, through the actual career publications of its foremost American apologist.

 

Call them "The Writhings of Liberalism"...