After the collapse of the last form of optimism (tech), liberalism can now only sustain itself on fear of the bad man autocrats. The outlook is bleak.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) April 25, 2022

I think there is a lot of truth to this. Liberalism has no hopeful future to promise: just the avoidance of something bad and a litany of what they must take away from you “for your own good.” This is not a winning proposition.