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An American Manifesto
by Christopher Chantrill
Crisis of the Administrative State
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
Government and the Technology of Force
If you scratch a reformer, you will likely discover a plan for more government
Business, Slavery and Trust
Business is all about trust and relationship.
Humanity’s Big Problem: Freeloaders
The modern welfare state encourages freeloaders.
The Bonds of Faith
No society known to anthropology or history has lacked religion.
A Critique of Human Mechanics
When governments tried to govern on mechanical principles.
The Paradox of Individualism
People that believe in individualism experience individualism as an advanced form of socialization.
From Multitude to Civil Society
Softening the hard edge of instrumental reason.
The Answer is Civil Society
Civil Society: the joint development of the market, civil society, and nationalism.
The Greater Separation of Powers
If you want to limit power you must limit power.
Conservatism Three by Three
Balancing tradition with adapting to changing times.
Imagining a Culture of Involvement
You must suggest an alternative.
The Poor Without the Welfare State
What would happen to the poor without a welfare state?
The Middle Class Without the Welfare State
Can the middle class thrive without the supervision of the welfare state?
Liberals and the Welfare State
Liberals ought to be equal to the task of living lives of creative endeavor without political power.
From Freeloaders to Free Givers
But are we too wedded to freeloading?
The Real Meaning of Society
Broadening the horizon of cooperation in the “last best hope of man on earth.”
Why We Fight
We must fight for our “shining city on a hill”
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners of America Unite!
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Sacrifice
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Responsibility
Seeckt: "to make of each individual member of the army a soldier who, in character, capability, and knowledge, is self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful in taking responsibility [verantwortungsfreudig] as a man and a soldier."
MacGregor Knox et. al., The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Racial Discrimination
[T]he way “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,”
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300—301, is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
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