I’ve noticed that outside of the West, liberalism at most has a cult following or people are actively hostile to it. People are very tribalistic and view the world in those terms, or at absolute best they have some kind of universalizing religious belief. When I say the West too it’s even narrower than that because it’s just Western Europe and America. Even in places like the Balkans (which I love) liberalism feels pretty embattled and like a foreign implant.

looks like liberalism as many other powerful words in english language - lost their meaning almost completely in US and west

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feels like a lot of it is just this language issue and it creates so much mess in people’s minds

meaning crisis, instead of naming things for what they are and studying definitions - they’re just using whatever definitions fits their agenda