Libertarianism vs Liberalism

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I had much the same cast of mind as a child. Those mushroom clouds. Endgame.

At least one gets glowing reports out of that scenario.

Originally posted by Scriabin
At least one gets glowing reports out of that scenario.

just an odd thought occured to me, do you think the much vaunted decline in social values in the west as evidenced by an increasing lack of civility in society has everything to do with exposure to the doomsday clock and the sense of powerlessness that accompanies the dread of mutually assured destruction?

many social commentators point to the decline in church attendance and the changes wrought in the social fabric by the sexual revolution of the sixties, as being the impetus of large scale transformational change within western culture that has given rise to steadily increasing rates of social dysfunction.

is it possible that all of that change was simply a consequence of the morbid insight afforded most in society from the earliest of ages, that our hold on life was tenuous at best and the widespread perception that man would probably fall victim to his own belligerence?

Originally posted by kmax87
just an odd thought occured to me, do you think the much vaunted decline in social values in the west as evidenced by an increasing lack of civility in society has everything to do with exposure to the doomsday clock and the sense of powerlessness that accompanies the dread of mutually assured destruction.

many social commentators point to the decline in c ...[text shortened]... best and the widespread perception that man would probably fall victim to his own belligerence?

Is it possible? Why not?

Is it the case?

I don't know.