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- Title: Shattered Society: Liberalism, Right and Left, Has Made Lonely Serfs of US All. Does the Red Tory Tradition Offer a Remedy? (Still Bowling Alone)
- Author : Phillip Blond
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
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In February 2009, British philosopher Phillip Blond's essay "Rise of the Red Tories," published in London's Prospect magazine, sparked a transatlantic discussion about the failure of politics, both Left and Right, to address our most pressing social problems. "We are a bipolar nation," he wrote, "a bureaucratic, centralized state that presides dysfunctionally over an increasingly fragmented, disempowered, and isolated citizenry." Each side has had its revolution. Liberals' cultural coup overthrew traditional mores and installed government as the fount from which all blessings flow. Conservatives swore allegiance to the market, enthroning capitalism as arbiter of ultimate worth. In so doing, both enslaved the individual to forces beyond his reach and leveled the intermediate institutions that once grounded and valued him.