Episode #133 ... Carl Schmitt on Liberalism pt. 2

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  So for anybody not listening to these two episodes back to back,

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  I want to briefly remind everyone of the end of last episode

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  because the discussion on this episode jumps right in immediately where the last episode ended.

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  Real quick, the last episode ended talking about the ambitions of normativism.

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  Quote, the hope of liberalism was to get rid of the sovereign.

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  The reality of the world is that we have long periods of normalcy where the government does almost nothing,

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  punctuated by rare moments of extreme action whenever things actually need to get done.

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  Liberalism hasn't removed the sovereign from the political process,

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  and the only time pieces of paper like the Constitution prevent the sovereign from acting are during periods of normalcy when the sovereign wouldn't be exercising authoritarian power anyway.

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  To Carl Schmidt,

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  the biggest difference between our modern societies and the ones that existed in the pre-liberal world is

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  that the pre-liberal societies were just a lot more honest about the authoritarianism that was going on.

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  Nowadays we got this grand illusion of liberalism that puts a bunch of window dressing on the process and pretends the world is something

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  that it's not.

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  End quote.

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  So maybe the best place to begin our discussion today is just to say that the fact

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