Just a few minutes ago I read this book review on the Slate Star Codex blog. I never actually read the book in question, but the review talks about the ideology of High Modernism. Scott Alexander, the author of the blog, quite unflatteringly describes it at one point as gt …standardization, Henry Ford, the factory as metaphor for the best way to run everything, conquest of nature, New Soviet Man, people with college degrees knowing better than you, wiping away the foolish irrational traditions of the past, Brave New World, everyone living in dormitories and eating exactly 2000 calories of Standardized Food Product TM per day, anything that is For Your Own Good, gleaming modernist skyscrapers, The X Of The Future, complaints that the unenlightened masses are resisting The X Of The Future, demands that if the unenlightened masses reject The X Of The Future they must be re educated For Their Own Good, and of course evenly spaced rectangular grids. Alexander was shocked by James Scott, author of the reviewed book's research into just how strong this ideology was around the turn of the last century . I, however, immediately identified this with my mental portrait of the modern globalist liberal ideology, which I elaborate on here and here I want to be shown that my mental portrait is actually inaccurate and that liberals don't, in fact, believe in a one size fits all world where optimal policies ought to be arrived at via impartial deliberation . But it seems to me as if that is very much what they believe in their ideas on trade, immigration, democracy, the role of the nation state, multinational corporations, and supernational institutions like the EU seem to me like being thoughts of High Modernists. Quick clarification here I identify liberal not with the political left wing as a whole but with people and institutions like the Clintons, Micheal Bloomberg, and the Democratic Leadership Council in the US, Tony Blair, New Labour, and the Liberal Democrat party in the UK, Emmanuel Macron in France, nominal conservatives like Mitt Romney and Angela Merkel, and other people and institutions as such. Merely stating your personal vision as a left wing person as a counterexample won't earn a delta, as I might not consider you as a liberal. Even if you disagree with my use of the word liberal , I still think it's quite clear the people and institutions I'm talking about have some sort of distinct identity, and it's that identity I'm concerned with, not whoever has true claim to the word.
Globalist liberalism is a manifestation of High Modernism.