I want what I want

It's pouring rain today so I took the streetcar instead of my bike. Reading on the streetcar, more on the deracinated society:

We're All Traditionalists Now: The Priority of Praxis to Theoria for the Culture War Thaddeus J. Kozinski PhD.

Christian, pro-life intellectuals are no longer contending merely with formidable anti-life ideas, but a systematic and coherent body of such ideas, united by a historical and publicly authoritative narrative, and embodied in well-entrenched and concrete habits, attitudes, customs, rituals, institutions and practices - a full-fledged anti-life tradition...

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"Liberalism, while imposing through state power regimes that declare everyone free to pursue whatever they take to be their own good, deprives most people of the possibility of understanding their lives as a quest for the discovery and achievement of the good..."

It only takes a few logical steps to realize that if the dominant tradition is one that "discredits traditional forms of human community", such as family and church, and deprives "most people" of knowing their true good, disastrous cultural consequences must follow. If we do not know our good, then how can we love it? If we do not know or love our good, because the very idea of good has become unintelligible and therefore unlovable, then how can we love ourselves and others?

"I want what I want." that is the first commandment dictated to us by today's culture. As Benedict XVI has warned us the day before his election to the Pontificate: "We are bulding a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires."

In short, liberalism, that ideology defined precisely by its rejection of and claim to transcend tradtion, has been transformed into a tradition itself, and it is not what it pretends to be. Liberalism is a liar.