kevineruby on Nostr: I do subscribe to a kind of long term progressivism when it comes to liberty. I think ...
I do subscribe to a kind of long term progressivism when it comes to liberty. I think in the grandest of human timeframes—centuries and millennia—it’s hard for civilizations to persist backward away from human freedom over very long stretches of time.
Americans worried about an imminent backslide of liberty in this country may have legitimate cases to articulate over the course of their own lifetimes. That’s obviously important. It’s something we should continue working to address together.
However, I believe our grandchildren and their children are likely to be both the most free and the most self-realized human beings this planet has ever known. A large part of that is because the ideas on the which the United States was founded, which basically come down to valuing every person and trusting them, are already out there. They’ve reached escape velocity in history. America as an idea put into practice has been done, and while I don’t want to see a world in which it has to be done again, it can be.
Americans worried about an imminent backslide of liberty in this country may have legitimate cases to articulate over the course of their own lifetimes. That’s obviously important. It’s something we should continue working to address together.
However, I believe our grandchildren and their children are likely to be both the most free and the most self-realized human beings this planet has ever known. A large part of that is because the ideas on the which the United States was founded, which basically come down to valuing every person and trusting them, are already out there. They’ve reached escape velocity in history. America as an idea put into practice has been done, and while I don’t want to see a world in which it has to be done again, it can be.