By F. ANDREW WOLF JR. - American Spectator
George Friedrich Hegel once remarked, “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” A paradox no doubt, but the modern liberal illustrates this truth. Don’t let the opening line of this piece fool you. It is not about some 19th century Prussian philosopher who’s been dead for 193 years, and who’s views antedated and unfortunately anticipated Karl Marx’s materialistic theory of history. But he can help us with one thing, and it’s important. Our philosopher can help us understand how modern liberals have for decades been using freedom and dependency in ways that just don’t mix.
Since the 1960s counterculture era of social reforms and civil rights, modern liberals have fostered a false sense of need in various population groups in America. This work documents how the above has led to some semblance of a “master-slave” relationship — a dependency by these groups upon modern liberals and consequently, the state.
Hegel’s views can tell us a lot about the thought of modern liberals — how they see freedom and dependency, themselves, and others in the world. They both agree that only by seeing ourselves in relation to other humans in society can we gain a sense of dignity and establish our place in the world. In other words we cannot do it by ourselves — modern liberals foster this image of the “self-in-need of the other.” They need others to fulfill who they understand themselves to be. The problem is that these liberals often view others as people in need of something from them. Through this continuous pattern of perception of need by the other, modern liberals fulfill their own need. They give while the other becomes dependent by accepting that which is given. A relationship is established.
For decades, minority populations have played a role of “dependency” in America, while modern liberals play that of “maintaining that dependency.” As you will see, the relationship is, psychologically and sociologically self-destructive for both. Kevin Martin, a member of the African American leadership network Project 21, writing for The National Center for Public Policy Research (2006) comments:
Liberalism is not just a problem for black America. Its failure can be seen by visiting any Martin Luther King Street, Avenue, or Boulevard. White America has the financial wherewithal and ambition to choose to escape it. Black Americans, due to long-term abuse by liberal policies, don’t always have that option. That’s why black America as a whole needs to wake up and shake off the liberal chains that bind us.
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