Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
Mark LevinThe Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
Mark LevinUtopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
Mark LevinMoreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbesโs distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that manโs nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?
Mark LevinThere are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.
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