The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684515580?tag=lrc18-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1
This might be a good read. Libertarian writer Jeffrey Tucker gives it a great review even though he ends up agin it!
Particularly intriguing to me is where Tucker writes: "MacIntyre... believes that the liberal project of the 17th and 18th centuries were the product of rationalistic arrogance, the belief that whole societies and cultures could be cajoled into a single model of organization by virtue of pieces of parchment, governmental architectures, slogans about human rights, and strict models of what defines the very notion of freedom and progress.
"He attempts to map out how the freedom of past centuries gradually mutated into the total state of today, a political order in which the entrenched and global bureaucratic elite face no limits to their power and ambition. He is not even slightly shocked that the center of the empire is the US simply because the US was the most successful deployment of the liberal democracy in history, and hence the one most vulnerable to the trajectory of arrogance, corruption, decadence, bloat, and hegemonic imposition without limit." 👀
https://a.co/d/0cYIOQk2
Added to my reading list...
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