The fine folks over at Fighting the Void invited me back to their live stream. Loyal readers will know I’ve been making the podcast rounds lately to promote Combat Frame XSeed, but these guys approached me some months ago to come on and discuss my political views. It was a nice change of pace, and I think the conversation proved fruitful. Listen for yourself.
From the Transcript
BRIAN: Here’s the thing that everybody misses, because we are awash in it, is that Liberalism is totalitarian fundamentally.
FIGHTING THE VOID: Okay, can you elaborate on it? Elaborate on that and particularly, okay?
BN: Well let’s first let’s look at the word “Liberal” plus ISM. The meaning of the
suffix ISM is to absolutize what comes before, so “Liberalism” it is the attempt to raise freedom to an absolute. And I could just stop right there, because that’s preposterous on its face.
FTV: Yes, well that gets right to the definition of freedom, sure.
BN: And there there are two classic definitions recognized in the Aristo-Thomistic tradition. There’s liberty and license.
FTV: Yes.
BN: And the modern definition that most people would go with is essentially license. And so with the
Enlightenment it’s the pursuit of one’s personal preferences with an absolute minimum of government intervention in the pursuit of people’s preferences. Look at “the pursuit of happiness” right there in our founding documents.
FTV: Yep. Okay, yep.
BN: Which are based on compromise. The US Constitution is not based on truth.