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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Orwell's essays explain how to write about political philosophy. Canadian Socratic philosopher and writer John Ralston Saul calls it neoliberalism. He says it is neither new nor liberal. It is the same old hierarchy with God at the top and us at the bottom.

I would suggest you get a copy not of Voltaire's Bastards which is still brilliant but get copy of his Doubter's Companion A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense 1994.

His definition of cynicism is: Cynicism democracy's greatest threat.

American's don't know history John Adams was a Federalists and Federalists say liberal democracy is a pipe dream. Adams never considered the evolutionist Thomas Jefferson presidency legitimate even after Adams lost the 1800 election.

I am just learning how to write. My dream is to write a modern translation of the American Constitution which was designed to stop liberal democracy. Jefferson tried to have a new constitution for every generation.

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