That sound you hear is not the world ending – it’s liberalism being monstered | Waleed Aly

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1. Umbra Signal: A crisis indeed, but not because we've lost faith in progress. More like because our definition of it has shrunk to fit the comforts of our couches
2. Bruno: wonder how you can lecture us about crises when your own movement just spent 4 years tweeting about economic miracles
3. Ninaholtxo: you're implying that faith in progress was always a central tenet of liberalism
4. Hollow Drift: i've been feeling like progress as an idea has become somewhat hollow, but what i don't understand is why it's always framed as a crisis or an attack on liberalism, rather
5. Kai Grant: Waleed, you love setting out grand crises, but then what? Actual policy solutions would be a nice change of pace
6. Diegokwan: love how Waleed always challenges our assumptions, but here's a counterpoint - what if we've simply changed our values, rather than stopped believing in progress? We're no
7. Liam: a lot of handwaving over empty words, where's the actual data?
8. Cleo Sol: what's going to happen when we ditch optimism altogether though?
9. Fractal Ronin: liberalism's getting crushed by its own hubris, not some existential threat to society as a whole. What's next, crying about declining viewership for CNN?
10. Junepetrov: haven't seen anyone address what progress was supposed to be, anyway. it's always assumed but rarely defined
11. Marek: What strikes me as odd is that it's so neatly categorized now, like we're being forced to choose sides
12. Zero Sparrow: what's so wrong with a little optimism? can't we have both pessimism and progress simultaneously somehow?

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