In the last entry I stated that Mark Levin focuses more of his second chapter, “Prudence and Progress,” villainizing a bogeyman he calls a Statist (read, Modern Liberal) rather than focusing on explaining his own position. I also explained what Levin’s “ordered liberty” probably means to him, based on a few sparse statements and his [...]
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Mark Levin’s second chapter is titled “Prudence and Progress.” Recalling my previous deconstruction, equating Conservative with Liberty is a contradiction, abnormal if you will. Conservatives are primarily for stability and order. Liberty has little meaning unless change results. Think of it this way. The governments of the world could unite to decree that bees everywhere [...]
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I’ve been doing the deconstruction of Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny for about a month now, including the background materials. That is enough time to gauge interest from readers to my blog. It appears that my best “blogging strategy” would be to limit such posts to once a week. Using my current method that would be [...]
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The essence of misinformation is to claim the normal is abnormal and vice-versa. Normally, the main attribute of conservatism is stability. Normally, since the time of Hobbes (and probably before) conservatism aligns itself with established order. Normally, chaos and anarchy are the chief evils to society that the Conservative wishes to thwart. Normally, the Conservative [...]
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Last week I began with a deconstruction of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny, going over the three basic types of information (dogma, omission, distortion) found in the first chapter. To recap, Levin takes a dogmatic approach to knowledge and politics, which historically retards progress and prevents learning from experience. A center point of Chapter One [...]
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Levin tends to speak of the Founders as if they were of one voice, and of course that is not true. This might be passed off as an omission by Levin, except that the most important issue splitting the Founders into two different factions was governance, and the majority were not in favor of the [...]
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You might classify it under the category of misinformed distortion when Levin alleges government proceeded much as the Founders wanted up until the New Deal, but I’ll leave Founders intent out of this for now. The grand omission by Levin in his first chapter is faulting the New Deal for events that first occurred earlier [...]
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The first chapter of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny is called “On Liberty and Tyranny.” The first paragraph starts off as well as an empiricist like me could hope for. Levin qualifies that there are more than one kind of conservatism. There is a significant omission in the list, but that is better saved for [...]
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This officially begins the deconstruction of Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin, which I am doing at the request from a conservative nephew. Here are links to background information I have provided for this deconstruction. Let me add that at this moment I have skimmed the book only. I will be reading [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – A Misinformed Title
This is the last bit of prep work before my deconstruction of the misinformation in Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny. To recap, my conservative nephew suspected that there was misinformation in this book and he asked me to evaluate it a few weeks back. It did not fit into my agenda for The Middle Class Forum [...]
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