liberalism

Tony Judt (Postwar) steps back and thinks about liberalism and the US in the NYRB:

 

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? We appear to have lost the capacity to question the present, much less offer alternatives to it. Why is it so beyond us to conceive of a different set of arrangements to our common advantage?

Comments

[Trish]

Better the devil you know? People don't like change, even when there's a chance it would make them happier. I know... CRAZY.

[misha]

Hi Trish: True, people don't like change.

Some measure of skepticism is good, but when it becomes cynical dismissal and unconsidered opinions, it's useless.