"It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption." #IRLEconomistJeanBaptisteSay #PoliticsLiberalismClassical #PoliticsCapitalismLaissezFaire https://www.historycrunch.com/laissez-faire-capitalism.html

#FictionalCharacterBuzzLightyear #2022_Lightyear #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostKyleSmith "Hollywood was founded by, and for generations run by, pure showmen who were fanatically devoted to giving the audience what it wanted. Today Hollywood's message is, 'Let us entertain you! But first, a brief lecture on what's wrong with you, the audience ...'" (25 June 2022).

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Addendum this follows the argument that entertainment is paradoxically intrinsic to, and simultaneously removed from culture i.e. that it is somehow possible to occupy a #PleaNeutrality position. This logic seems to echo a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical position, one where choosing *not* to intervene maintains a #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium. This can be understood additionally in terms of #PoliticsStatusQuoBias, which parallels #TheoryDragonsOfInactionSystemJustification, as applied in a climate change context.

#AdvocacyUKCounterweight #IRLAuthorHelenPluckrose #IRLDesignerCharlieStanton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FENXpEz8kw0 In defence of #PoliticsLiberalismClassical via an explanation of #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT (ideologically) reframed as 'Critical Social Justice'

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Supplementary "Therefore, while the CSJ approach advocates for identity politics, liberals advocate for removing social significance from identity - that is, eradicating the idea that one's race, sex or sexuality tells us anything about anybody's abilities, morals or roles in society [ i.e. #PleaNeutrality ]. While the CSJ approach argues that knowledge is relative, positional and tied to identity, liberals argue that knowledge is objective (at least in principle although we should never be too sure of having obtained it) and individuals of any identity may access it, although experiences and perceptions may vary. Where the CSJ approach insists we are all socialised into the acceptance of certain discourses and therefore language must be closely scrutinised and policed to dismantle oppressive power systems, liberals believe that culture has influence but that individuals have agency and can use language to argue for and against ideas and that bad ideas (including bigoted ones) are best overcome by better ideas." https://counterweightsupport.com/2021/02/17/what-do-we-mean-by-critical-social-justice/

#MagazineUKTheEconomist https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/09/04/the-threat-from-the-illiberal-left (4 September 2021) #PoliticsProgressivismIlliberal #PoliticsLiberalismClassical ^[Wikipedia] "Classical liberals believe in setting fair initial conditions and letting events unfold through competition..." i.e. #TheoryDarwinismNaturalSelection And #PoliticsCapitalismLaissezFaire #PoliticsConservatismTraditionalist #ConspiracyTheory_CulturalMarxism ? #TheoryPostmodernConservatism ?

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Supplementary #OrgIntlEuropeanConsortiumForPoliticalResearchECPR https://ecpr.eu/GeneralConference And https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1340

#CauseActivismEnvironmental #CauseFeminism #PolicyRightsHuman anti #PoliticsCapitalism - perhaps more correctly, criticism of #PoliticsNeoliberalism #PoliticsSovereignty

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Supplementary "Classical economics implicitly assumed the existence of a teleological natural order governed by natural laws. Therefore, it appeared to be necessary only to repeal the unjust man-made laws and other restrictions imposed upon man by man, in order that the infinitely just natural laws might impose upon man that perfect order which was ordained by nature and by nature's God. Liberty was thought to be the natural state of affairs which required no positive action. It was believed to be necessary only to remove the unnatural restraints from man in order to insure that liberty would naturally result. Classical liberalism was based upon a strong commitment to economic liberty and an overpowering fear that the government might impair or destroy this precious liberty" (Lewis E. Hill, 1964, p.394). #PoliticsLiberalismClassical #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium #TheoryTeleology Hill, L. E. (1964). 'On Laissez-Faire Capitalism and 'Liberalism'.' The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 23(4): 393-396. ^{[academic source]}

#PleaNostalgia #TheoryDeclinism (golden age thinking / rosy retrospection / wistfulness yearning / reminiscence) #CharacterisationWeaknessHypersensitivity #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #PolicyUSFarmSecurityAdministrationFSA ^[Wikipedia] (versus #PhenomnAgricultureFarmingIntensive?)

#PleaAuthenticity #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #PleaNostalgiaRetrospection

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Context #IRLScholarTimothySnyder's #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8&t=367s

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Supplementary #WebsiteInternetEncyclopediaOfPhilosophyAshleyWoodward "For Lyotard change is life affirming, whereas the stable structures that inhibit change are nihilistic and life denying. However, Lyotard does not simply assert libidinal intensity as an affirmative 'other' to nihilism. For Lyotard, there is no affirmative region, no pure outside to nihilism. Lyotard does not propose that we champion affects, singularities, intensities and libidinal energy over systems, structures, theory, concepts and representation. This is because the only way libidinal energies can exist is within structures. Lyotard does not advocate a simple liberation of desire and does not attempt to set up a place beyond representation which would be immune to the effects of nihilism. Lyotard presents us, rather, with a metaphysical system in which intensities and structures are both essential elements of the libidinal economy." ^{[encyclopædia]}

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Addendum #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard's #TheoryPhilosophyLibidinal clearly contrasts with #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium as per a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical perspective (evoked above).

#PoliticsLiberalismClassical #BrandTimcastMediaGroupTimPool

#OrgClassifPPITPartitoNazionaleFascistaPNFBenitoMussolini e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSXketmKyAY&t=5s e.g. ^{[site archive]}