Chris, I am a guest on Carmen and appreciated your book, The Wolf... I am curious if you have ever watched Season 1, Episode 7 of the series The Orville? It is titled "Majority Rules" and it is on the negative impact of social media on an entire planetary culture.
I said something similar about negative liberty in a piece I wrote, "America at 250":
"However, the freedoms America’s Founders bequeathed to the nation possess a dark side: They come with few constraints. Such constraints, as John Adams noted, had to be supplied willingly by 'a moral people,' those with taught and trained moralities that would inhibit excesses and restrain forays into detrimental areas of life. Regrettably, with the dilution of Christian morality over the last one hundred years, the putrid underbelly of 'the American experiment' has been exposed.
"Politically, culturally, and religiously, America’s unity and strength have been undermined by the ultimate human freedom: 'Everyone did what was right in his own eyes' (Judges 21:25). It is a blessing that the fundamental principle of the rule of law has not yet been abandoned. Otherwise, the disastrous notion of freedom without personal or social responsibility would have ended this nation in chaotic self-destruction, fracturing into dozens of warring states trying to survive in a Balkanized America."
Chris, I am a guest on Carmen and appreciated your book, The Wolf... I am curious if you have ever watched Season 1, Episode 7 of the series The Orville? It is titled "Majority Rules" and it is on the negative impact of social media on an entire planetary culture.
I haven’t! Fascinating.
Insightful and meaningful post, thank you.
I said something similar about negative liberty in a piece I wrote, "America at 250":
"However, the freedoms America’s Founders bequeathed to the nation possess a dark side: They come with few constraints. Such constraints, as John Adams noted, had to be supplied willingly by 'a moral people,' those with taught and trained moralities that would inhibit excesses and restrain forays into detrimental areas of life. Regrettably, with the dilution of Christian morality over the last one hundred years, the putrid underbelly of 'the American experiment' has been exposed.
"Politically, culturally, and religiously, America’s unity and strength have been undermined by the ultimate human freedom: 'Everyone did what was right in his own eyes' (Judges 21:25). It is a blessing that the fundamental principle of the rule of law has not yet been abandoned. Otherwise, the disastrous notion of freedom without personal or social responsibility would have ended this nation in chaotic self-destruction, fracturing into dozens of warring states trying to survive in a Balkanized America."
Well said Chris. I expand on a part of this with:
https://riponsociety.org/article/flawed-men-enduring-principles/