![]() Because, said Aristotle, democracies naturally turn themselves into tyranny. Democracies were regarded in ancient times as inherently self-destructive ways of government. ![]() In this country, I think you could say that they existed from the second half of the of the 19th century - they are not the norm. But democracies have existed for about 150 years. We have an idea that it’s a very robust system. It didn’t happen in his own lifetime it has happened in many countries in the 20th century, and it’s happening in Britain now.”On the fragility of democracy: That’s what he regarded as the big danger. The tendency would be for it to influence policies in a way that whittles away the island within which we are entitled to control our lives to next to nothing. “John Stuart Mill regarded public sentiment and public fear as the principal threat to a liberal democracy. And I think that that is a very striking and very sinister development.”On the dangers of public fear: But we have tended to revert to it during the current crisis. Now, this is a model which ever since the rise of a recognisable form of modern Liberalism in the middle of the 19th century, has been almost universally rejected. Hobbes believed that we resign our freedoms unconditionally and permanently into the hands of the state, in return for security. This is because of his experience of the anarchy which flowed from the civil war in England. He was not, let us say, a believer in liberty. ![]() He said that there was nothing short of the state actually killing people that the state should not be entitled to do. “ Hobbes believed in the absolute state - it didn’t have to be a monarchy, but it had to be absolute. I do not believe that there is a moral obligation to obey the law… You have to have a high degree of respect, both for the object that the law is trying to achieve, and for the way that it’s been achieved. I have always taken a line on this, which is probably different from that of most of my former colleagues. Shriver joined Freddie Sayers to discuss these questions.“I feel sad that we have the kind of laws which public-spirited people may need to break. Have our permissive mores and hyper-liberal culture driven young people to distraction? Shriver’s award winning novel asks how society and parenting shapes the minds of young people. Miller’s troubles may just be another predictable story about the price of early fame, but it could also speak to something more troubling about contemporary culture. What went wrong for the promising young actor? Throughout 2022 a string of bizarre allegations have hit the headlines, and last month the actor was arrested twice for assault and then only a few weeks ago for felony burglary. In 2012 Miller came out as queer, saying “I don’t identify as a man, I don’t identify as a woman, I barely identify as a human.” And in the ensuing years, outlandish and expressive clothing came to typify the actor, who became somewhat of a standard bearer for queer identity.īut recently, Miller’s life has taken a strange turn. When Lionel Shriver’s story of a troubled teenager, We Need to Talk About Kevin, was adapted for screen in 2011 it launched the career of young actor Ezra Miller. Who was responsible for this infringement? According to the legal case, the conspiracy extends to the highest levels of power in Washington, and primarily at fault is the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Anthony Fauci. Talking to UnHerd's Freddie Sayers, he lays out the evidence that social media companies were instructed to quell scientific views which opposed government lockdown measures. Now, Bhattacharya is taking his case to the courts to prove collusion between the Biden administration and Big Tech to silence skeptics like the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration. It marked a watershed moment in the pandemic, but the authors found their criticisms of COVID policy were increasingly censored on social media. In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics - Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff - who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. Freddie Sayers discusses Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes' lawsuit against the US federal government.
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