Liberalism would be an ideal system if ..

Liberalism is the best system of the moment, but ...

Mais alors, en repoussant le libéralisme, ne sera-t-on pas conduit jusqu'au socialisme ? Leduc

This brief analysis of the liberal system leads to several findings:

In theory, liberalism seems to be the best economic system for globalization.

In practice, it is far from fulfilling all its promises.

By some specific reforms, it would become, practically, an excellent system of evolution.

Liberalism as the best system

In the fratricidal struggle between the two terrible children of the social contract, the last victory undoubtedly returns to liberalism.

* I refer to liberalism and communism

This system, in fact, has imposed itself on humanity to continue the great work of unification. In spite of his excesses, he showed the most coherent to meet the needs of contemporary society.

The victory of liberalism over communism, when the great adventure of globalization begins, gives meaning to evolution. She militates for Stuart Mill's thesis about the invisible hand organizing nature.

Logic in building the world

Liberal democracy thus granted the individual, in the name of political liberty, a so-called guarantee against oppression that, in the name of economic freedom, it immediately withdrew it. Th. Molnier

Impulses, religion, cultures

The energy and imagination needed to universalize, inevitably called for an adequate system. The notion of freedom had to go to the forefront of the values ​​required. Unfortunately, unconsciousness, greed, pride, excess, self-centeredness, temerity ... were also part of the lot. These faculties were "qualities" necessary for the start of globalization.
In this period, it was also necessary to give up spirituality punctually. Its values ​​and its morality, were opposed to the "qualities" of globalization. Greed, pride, egocentrism ... are indeed pulsions that religions condemn and fight.

It was also necessary to assess certain national peculiarities incompatible with this (universal) unification. Globalization must therefore destroy certain previous respects (respect for particularities, the environment, traditional cultures, etc.).
This destruction is violent and intense. They are extremely energy intensive. But these excesses and injustices should disappear when globalization reaches its cruising pace.

The hidden meaning

The worst as well as the best have a meaning in evolution. Even the deafening, the obtundation, the stupidity and the alienation engendered by the hyper-liberal activity in the minds, have been (and are still doubtless) necessary for evolution.
In my opinion, it was a question of overwhelming all possible resistance. Any disputes that may prevent the start of this global system. This is probably why we have been witnessing for some time the crushing or the corruption of the trade union movement. To the negligence, by the journalists, of strike movements. The depreciation by the media of the civil service, etc.

The obvious progression

By observing the world in the necessary perspective, its logic of evolution becomes evident. Evident also, the human progress brought by liberalism for two centuries. The working class has improved considerably in the West. These improvements, following the rise of relocations, are beginning to spread gradually towards the emerging countries.

The fight at the origin

But social evolutions are above all the result of the constant struggle of the workers. They are to be credited to critical and revolutionary ideologies and, for a very small part, to certain initiatives of the employers. And especially when liberalism is not sufficiently criticized, it regresses all the gains.

The rejection of dictatorships

Undeniably also, the attractive force of freedom imposed itself in the heart of man. It imposed itself against all kinds of dictatorship (proletarian, military or religious). The popular aspiration shows this; it is always more enviable to live more or less free in the excesses of a liberalism than under the oppression of a liberticidal system. May this autocracy be justified by equality or by obedience to God.

Liberalism and its promises

being, is not having the freedom to do anything De Robien

In the 1980s brilliant "economists", journalists and ultra-liberal businessmen sold us this new liberalism. These aficionados promised shared prosperity, general enrichment and improved living conditions for all. Unquestionably, their promises have been like the wind. Enrichment concerns only a few elites and the impoverishment of the people has become widespread. Today, these first liberal zealots have disappeared from the front of the stage. They have given way to new chorists of deregulation. But the ur is no longer there. Happy globalization, in the West, is resolved by ambient pessimism. It resulted in renewed anxiety and violence. Singular contrast with the carefree years of the welfare state. If we try to define the global atmosphere produced by liberalism over the last 20 years over the whole world, it is far from the hoped-for happiness. The anguish of a senseless systemThe end of happiness The West entered a phase of pessimism and of despair. they alternate crises, absurdity and dejection. It has lost all confidence in its leaders, its journalists, its entrepreneurs and its elites. Its populations are exhausted by dominant stressors and incoherent. This world is halfway between the qui vive and the pure and simple abandonment of its last forces to fatality. The abuses of the ultra liberals are building a desperate world. Poor people agonized by the proximity of exclusion to whom all the virtues of labor have been suppressed. Middle classes stressed by an unsustainable pace of life and rocking chairs. Rich people obliged to contemplate the result of their selfish madness in other words all the misery of the world on TV and in the streets. Business executives harassed on all sides ... And none of all these components today can speak of happiness. No one has the time, the means, the envy, or the potential, of being truly happy under such liberalism. The superficial kingdom For 20 years the market has injected its ersatz into the people so that it forgets the absurdity of this system and the degradation of its living conditions. But these illusions get out of breath. The compulsiveness of over-consumption is pervasive. The sexy in all the sauces, the exaggerated fury of the forced party, the idiotic and deafening television programs pour their last excesses. The new promises of a better liberal world, a true taste of sadness and despair.

A sadness that speaks

Deaf to all questioned, the leaders ask the people not to sink into gloom. They did not realize that it is about eliminating the causes of stress and anxiety in the world.

This sadness is coherent and meaningful. To neglect it would be a mistake. In my opinion, it is not due to fear of change, fear of globalization or flexibility ... It is the anxiety of precariousness, low wages, lack of recognition of are at issue. It is the lack of general sense of humanity, the disappearance of systems of protection, the unconsciousness of the media, the disappearance of spirituality ...

The psyche of the rulers needs competition, overactivity, luxury, problems and hubbub, to feed his anxieties and nihilism. The people do not have this psychic problem. His ambitions are limited and society respects his rhythm, and his values, he is perfectly happy. It aspires essentially to peace, serenity, simplicity. He wants recognition for his work, free time to flourish with his children, friends and hobbies.

Slow degradation

Even if it is explicable, the progressive degradation of liberalism since the providences years, is a-normal. To make danger and precariousness an engine of globalization is a heresy.
Humanity (unlike the animal world) must constantly improve the security of mankind as "humanity." The security of employment in the West should have been a basis for were not provided.
The dominant liberals had the means to maintain the social gains of the West and to oblige the emerging countries to improve the working conditions of their employees (for example by allowing consumers to boycott unethical products). (to be consulted)

The whole poor world

On the other hand we have the whole poor world. The vulnerable African, Latin American, humanity is European and a large part of the East. This part of mankind has certainly won over 20 years, shares of freedom and comfort. But his daily life has also seen large areas of insecurity, violence and chaos. Corruption and poor working conditions are at their height. Some traditional values ​​in need of retreat have not been replaced by superior modern values. They have been supplanted by liberal impulses (easy money, sex at the expense of the weakest, desire for power) ... Hence the explosion of danger, corruption and war in these poor and vulnerable countries. Countries where law, justice and the police are insufficiently fair and structured to properly fulfill their protective role.

This is one of the reasons why criminal associations are flourishing. The mafias, the squads of death, the new slave-owners, the militias of all kinds. And the first victims of these perverse groups are the peaceful and vulnerable populations.

Some specific reforms

It would be sweet to be liberal towards what you love, if it did not make a bargain. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is revolting in applied liberalism is its deafness to positive developments. Its resistance to proposals for social, ethical and ecological reforms. No to the Tobin tax, not to Kyoto, not to the free medicines for Africa. Not at the end of oil, not at equality of trade. No to the tax on the embarkations, not to the peace ...

As soon as it is a matter of cutting back on its profits, the market shows an incredible resistance to let go of the ballast. Most of the time, the progressive system has to backtrack. On the other hand, when it comes to increasing their powers, their rights and their profits, merchants and industrialists know how to develop their energy. They constantly harass and threaten governments until they give in.

Western populations have enough to be revolted or desperate. There is so little lack to improve considerably the living conditions on the planet. The consciousness and means are there. Only the unconsciousness of the dominant ones delays the advent.

The media hold a diamond that they do not use

What seems the most difficult to admit is that in issuing a single corporation all the problems would be solved. It would be enough to free the media from the claws of the market to quickly sanitize liberalism. By putting in the public square all the malversations and bad behavior of the dominant, the elites would find the way of their ethics. If journalists were truly free to adequately embody their mission and responsibilities, liberal globalization would indeed fulfill all its promises. Progress would become positive and respectful towards the world population and the planet. If the Western media as a whole reintegrated into the fullness of their ethics, they would soon be able to moralize the market. To bring out the qualities of the statesmen (known since Plato) and to render justice justly.

Journalists and consumers, an untapped force

Imagine, for example, the majority of Western journalists who have become fair and free. Let us imagine those capable of regularly denouncing, in prime time and on the channels of the general public, all the excesses of the market, the political and judicial world. The people (ethical by nature) would immediately boycott the transgressors. This boycott would require others to monitor their ethics, change their habits, and clean up their various corporations.

The power of Western popular ethics is largely neglected. Yet the evidence of his generosity and his justice is regularly expressed. It is enough to observe the impulses of solidarity of the western people towards the disadvantaged world to be convinced of it. It is enough to perceive his commitment in favor of peace to understand his noble intentions.

Imagine the strength of the media if they were simply free, fair and equitable. If they were sufficiently inquisitive and able to alert the billion people living in the West. To show them the malpractices committed by each society, each multinational, each country. Humanity would then have more than one billion consumers willing to boycott companies that disrespect human ethics and their products. To boycott the countries that muzzle the information and mistreat their own journalists (without great Western journalistic reactions for that matter).

Bad liberalism that does not play the liberal game

ultimately the biggest problem of liberalism is that it refuses to play the game of liberalism. He is disloyal in competition. It stifles the consumer's defense bodies. He refuses criticism and counter-powers. Installed in the workings of society, the market has constantly taken control of political systems. It stifles conflicts, even though they are factors of progress. It annihilates oppositions (like trade unions) and manipulates information (under the pretext, for example, of preserving the competitiveness of national or Western companies).

It also keeps on extending its hold over areas vital to citizens. Sectors whose independence and freedom vis-à-vis the economic system are a necessity. I want to talk about politics, justice, health, education and the media.

year 2002

hazards of libéralism