The major obstacles to the liberal vision of a society blessed by the seven spokes of the Wheel of Progress are: the planet earth and human nature.
Aside from that, full speed ahead.
The very highminded demands of "social justice" in all its forms requires a correspondingly very high degree of social constraint. Humans, left relatively free, will not create a progressive utopia. They can only be coerced into that by bullying, I mean, by the force of the state, I mean, by law, litigation, confiscatory tax rates and social shaming. Well, you get it.
Michael Knox Beran's new book describes how elites "become pathological when they mask their will to power with a philosophy of social pity." Bingo.
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