Another thought about Balkanization and the division between communitarianism and libertarianism.
What about war?
What about religion?
Neither fits neatly into the communitarian or the libertarian scheme of things….
And what worries me most of all is that war and religion are increasingly becoming synonymous. (In that regard at least, “Balkanization” is no overstatement.)
At war? With religion?
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War, I think has to do with yet another axis, the amount of global involvement. People who favor war to liberate other countries want to spread values (communitarians) or freedom (libertarians), while those who don’t generally are more insular and think liberation should be earned, not given.
(I still am not really sure where I stand on this particular issue.)
As an apatheist, I don’t really give two figs about religion, so I’ll let someone else expound on that.
What really worries me is that in the US, we seem to have two major communitarian parties and no one of note standing up for the libertarians. Is a realignment or a (hopefully bloodless) revolution in the making?
Extremely interesting once again. War and religion are both primordial. Spengler’s Two Estates: the warrior and the priest, Castle and Cathedral, Time and Space. The “tough-minded” and the “tender-minded” sides of the Right on Hans J. Eysenck’s spectrum.
I don’t associate values with communitarianism but with individualism. Values are those things the Individual acts to gain and/or keep.