Adam Gurri

So what do you need?

What does liberalism offer that the others do not?

There's a basic formula for building in responsiveness in the government to what the population is feeling.

So democracy and freedom of the press and freedom of speech and freedom of association are things that

actually force feedback loops into the government for what various different groups are feeling at the moment.

They also allow

organization to change things in the government.

If the government has grown stagnant, this isn't just sort of reacting to the trouble that can come from populations.

Populations also do creative things.

We can tap talent on a broader level than ever before.

So talented people who might have been left out before can organize themselves, run for office or create large corporations and become influential.

So you can harness sort of the creativeness of the general population as well through liberty.

And then finally, talking about this social difference aspect, I mean, the basic, because liberalism predates, as an idea, predates the Industrial Revolution.

The basic idea is one way that you achieve social peace is by allowing a level of

letting people organize among themselves.

You don't enforce an official church line on things through the government because that just isn't asking for civil war.

Maybe they could do that in medieval Europe.

Mostly what they did in medieval Europe is there was an official church line and governments were too weak to enforce it anyway.

So they could afford to say they were enforcing it because they couldn't.

Now they are actually powerful enough to do so, but people are powerful enough to make trouble for them if they do do so.