If there's something we should know from history, it's that any one ideology alone is not enough to help a society thrive.
Liberalism standing on its own is useless and arguably evil, but is not useless and evil in combination with other ideological viewpoints that provide a limiting framework by which you would channel that freedom into something productive.
The problem is that most other ideologies have been slowly stripped away, and just like Wang Mang in 48ad in China trying to be the most confucian ruler and causing catastrophe (since China has typically had at least 4 ideological viewpoints at odds in confucianism, meritocratic bureaucracy, Buddhism, and daoism) or later with the great leap backwards, you can't strip all the other ideologies away without suffering the consequences of their absence because in a successful civilization the different ideologies being different and important stuff to the table.
Liberalism standing on its own is useless and arguably evil, but is not useless and evil in combination with other ideological viewpoints that provide a limiting framework by which you would channel that freedom into something productive.
The problem is that most other ideologies have been slowly stripped away, and just like Wang Mang in 48ad in China trying to be the most confucian ruler and causing catastrophe (since China has typically had at least 4 ideological viewpoints at odds in confucianism, meritocratic bureaucracy, Buddhism, and daoism) or later with the great leap backwards, you can't strip all the other ideologies away without suffering the consequences of their absence because in a successful civilization the different ideologies being different and important stuff to the table.
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