Det här minns jag från när jag gick på "universitet" och läste en "lärobok" om typ "cultural theory" och tänkte mig att det på något sätt skulle vara kunskap.Om vi på ett obegränsat sätt tolererar intoleranta människor, om vi inte är beredda att försvara ett tolerant samhälle mot de intolerantas angrepp, då kommer de toleranta att gå under, och toleransen med dem.[1] Ett demokratiskt och öppet samhälle är således alltid utsatt för förfall "inifrån", från människor som drar nytta av de friheter ett tolerant samhälle erbjuder i akt och mening att bekämpa just dessa friheter (t.ex. yttrandefrihet). Poppers slutsats utifrån detta är att det därför är berättigat att inte acceptera denna intolerans: ”Vi måste därför, i toleransens namn, hävda rätten att inte tolerera de intoleranta.”https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleransparadoxen
Michael Oakeshott (1901-90), the 20th century’s subtlest and most original conservative philosopher, used the term "political rationalism" to describe totalitarian ideologies such as Leninism and National Socialism, but he was clear that any kind of political tradition could succumb to rationalist ideology – including conservatism. ...
The core of rationalism in politics is an idea of politics itself. Rather than being a practice in which people negotiate the terms on which they co-exist with one another, politics means the imposition of an idea. The idea is self-evidently true; anyone who questions it is ignorant and stupid, or else wilfully malignant. ...
This kind of thinking underlies many of the absurdities of politics at the present time, on left and right. When the European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt praised the EU as an emerging empire at the Liberal Democrat conference last month, the assembled delegates could hardly restrain their enthusiasm. The dream of a future European empire supplies an alternative patriotism for progressives who despise the nation-state. In practice the European project has itself become a variety of nationalism, though it celebrates a nation that does not exist. The reality throughout the continent is the onward march of nationalists of a more familiar kind. Like much of the rest of Europe, Verhofstadt’s native Belgium is rotten with far-right movements, which his hyper-federal project would only further empower. Preferring not to face these realities, the liberals who cheered him are possessed by a grand idea.
Oakeshott understood politics as a practical skill. In a celebrated essay, he wrote:
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy, and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behaviour in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion.
It is a poetic and (to my mind) true image of the open-ended nature of politics. ...
Today the tacit understanding of liberals in all parties is that the world would be far more civilised if the grubby business of politics was replaced by the legal adjudication of justice and rights.
Från https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...cs-and-art-war
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