{"id":10283,"date":"2011-10-11T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/george-will-on-the-liberal-collectivist-agenda\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:15:02","slug":"george-will-on-the-liberal-collectivist-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/george-will-on-the-liberal-collectivist-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"George Will on the Liberal-Collectivist Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/elizabeth-warren-and-liberalism-twisting-the-social-contract\/2011\/10\/04\/gIQAXi5VOL_story.html\" target=\"_self\">Excerpt<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The collectivist agenda is antithetical to America\u2019s premise, which is: Government \u2014 including such public goods as roads, schools and police \u2014 is instituted to facilitate <em>individual<\/em> striving, a.k.a. the pursuit of happiness. The fact that collective choices facilitate this striving does not compel the conclusion that the collectivity (Warren\u2019s \u201cthe rest of us\u201d) is entitled to take as much as it pleases of the results of the striving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Warren\u2019s statement is a footnote to modern liberalism\u2019s more comprehensive disparagement of individualism and the reality of individual autonomy. A particular liberalism, partly incubated at Harvard, intimates the impossibility, for most people, of self-government \u2014 of the ability to govern one\u2019s self. This liberalism postulates that, in the modern social context, only a special few people can literally make up their own minds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The collectivist agenda is antithetical to America\u2019s premise, which is: Government \u2014 including such public goods as roads, schools and police \u2014 is instituted to facilitate individual striving, a.k.a. the pursuit of happiness. The fact that collective choices facilitate this striving does not compel the conclusion that the collectivity (Warren\u2019s \u201cthe rest of us\u201d) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/george-will-on-the-liberal-collectivist-agenda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George Will on the Liberal-Collectivist Agenda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}