Things that don't resonate with me to the extent they once did(2)

Though David Hume may be able to out consume Schopenhauer and Hegel, what would Georg say about the current state of affairs which look like various Escher drawings?

In economics, the Keynesian age of government intervention to stimulate the economy is now emasculated by the federal debt, which may have been created by government intervention in the first place.  Escher drawing #1.  If we had followed Hayek, would we be in a worse place?

Liberal democracies, safeguarding freedom protecting individual rights against governmental tyranny may have created the gridlock precluding any solution to the problem.  Escher drawing #2.

Contrast the seemingly more unified ant hill of the Chinese and their massive government intervention in technologies in the future, not only in Ph.D's in science, but green technology, investment in Africa, South East Asia, and likely soon in Europe, as the Euro Zone struggles with its own Escher drawing.

For Hegel, history has a purpose and a redemptive end, the full realizing of our  potential for freedom.

"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

The state when it is fulled with spirit, is shot through with the realization of freedom.  In an ethical society, the state is in fact an expression of human freedom.

However, the expression of this freedom is unlike anything I can articulate. 

This is not a freedom in the negative sense, a freedom to do what you want, a freedom from coercion, as in the Western British/American sense.  This is not a glorification of individual rights.  Nor is it a system of checks and balances to prevent the tyranny of the state.

The  government which governs best for Hegel does not govern least.

There exists the real possibility of government intervention embodying the spirit of the times.

And if you understand any of this, you are doing much better than I am.