Is there a good reason not to start to wind back unemployment benefits after (say) 12 weeks?
thefrollickingmole January 2, 2010 at 8:10 pm By that I mean, democratic government, the idea of the individual as the essential basic building block of society, the idea of separation of church and state, the application of reason as the only justifiable means of making decisions etc. Just give me a couple of pointers in the broader sense where post-Enlightenment ideas are wrong? Let’s start with ‘classic liberalism’ before we get onto the entire Enlightenment, shall we? First, your ontology and epistemology are all wrong. Your ‘individual’ does not exist, ontologically speaking. I think that’s at the heart of the problem. You think capitalists make money because their daring innovators, and got there all by themselves. In reality, they don’t get there alone any more than children reach adulthood safely in the absence of parenting. There is no ‘worldless subject’ except in the minds of liberal ideologues…consequently, if you have a world, you also, of necessity, have to deal with the
