On the liberal and traditional values

Yes, this is yet another rant nobody has asked for. Sorry about that. You often hear about traditional and liberal values from the politicians yet hardly anybody defines except in the broadest terms (essentially “for all good and against all bad; if you’re not fully supporting us that means you’re an enemy of good”). So here’s my attempt to make sense of them and which one should be preferred. Surprisingly, liberal values have been formalised by the prominent expert on chaos and decay C.N. Parkinson. Here I quote three recognisable characteristics of liberal values as formulated by him about half a century ago: The first is that their views are based upon a sense of highly moral but unstated and unproven assumptions. The second is that they are savagely intolerant of any views that differ from theirs. The third is that they are always remote from the arena to which their high-minded principles are meant to apply. I’ve not ever encountered any more or less formal definition of…

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