Another View on the Continuing Crisis

We should recognize that this habit of calling upon the state, to take charge of matters that were once the concern of individual initiative and private charity, is the surest sign that the inner liberty shown in responsible choice is disappearing from our society. Its disappearance is both the cause of liberal policies and the natural effect of them. People are less and less inclined to take responsibility for their lives. to commit themselves to others, or to social networks...what they can summon the state to solve instead....The state comes with an agenda: it is less interested in freeing people than in equalizing them. -Roger Scruton. Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage. (pp. 159-160) So-called "Social Conservatives" would do well to read this and consider its ramifications. Quite often they are just as guilty as progressives of the idea that all you need to correct a problem is to pass a law. But passing a law alone will not change peoples hearts and minds. If their is a "Values Revolution" it must occur in the heart before it can truly take effect.