Frank Wright
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It failed along the 1920s through the 30s.
And all the liberal democracies that were installed shortly after the Great War, they just dissolved because they couldn't answer the financial crisis that their new economic model had created.
And they had no political answer to Bolshevism.
But apart from that, you had the international financiers who wanted a global standard economic system for their own interests.
You had people like Bertrand Russell and John Dewey, these kind of atheist, pragmatist, rationalist philosophers who actually sold you the idea that if we had a one world government, we could end war and that they would sell that to you with these humanitarian principles in mind.
and i think bertrand russell was quite convinced of that i mean i don't find that a convincing argument because there's a profound reason why that's wrong and that's because liberals believe that man is perfectible and that according to the the myth of progress
that man just gets better every day because the calendar flips over.
But the inexorable moral progress of mankind is a myth.
And the British philosopher John Gray has expanded that very cleverly in his Seven Types of Atheism, showing that this is just a fantasy.
It's a utopian delusion.
But those people sincerely believed it.
And these people are dangerous.
They're fanatics.
And this is where utopian thought leads you.
Like the British thinker and journalist Peter Hitchens said, you know, the trouble with utopia is you have to row across an ocean of blood and you never arrive.
But that has meaning in reality.
So you did have well-meaning liberal fanatics like Bertrand Russell.
And John Dewey actually wrote a series of essays in the 1930s called Towards a Common Faith.
And he said that we should supply, we the liberal elite, should supply a kind of global Christless religion, a common faith, so these plebeians could believe in it, and we could somehow unite this new global system of interdigitated liberal democracies, which are all identical in having bicameral systems, and incidentally all identical in the fact that you can only vote for left liberals, right liberals, extreme liberals, or Bolshevists, which is what you could actually vote for in the first instance.
So whilst you're in this new happy utopia, we're going to give you this belief system.
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