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Modernity and technology are closely related to one an?other. When
modernization began in the middle of the 18th century, it was fol?lowed
almost immediately and in the closest way by the rapid technical
develop?ment. The movement of modernity profoundly transformed all segments
of experiential reality. It transformed politics, religion and philosophy,
among other things. It also changed many of the basic conditions of society.
However, nowhere, in any field of human activities, did it result in such
profound changes as in the general way of human life, which had previously
existed in people?s specific and close dependence on nature, regardless of
worldview, religion or ideology. The drive for self-mastery has had immense
and often unintended consequences. In this paper, the intention is to
demonstrate some of the ?inevi?table consequences? of modernity?s technical
hubris and the shortcomings of techno-utopianist?s ?pervasive technology?
from a decidedly conservative point of view. Furthermore, there is an
arguing that the ?Luddite? or machine-destroy?ing attitude towards
technology is not the primary objective of the conservative, that is,
maintenance of a purely instrumental relationship with technology, re?ducing
it back to technique, while preserving one?s inner spiritual and mental
integrity.

In my article I would like to analyze a tradition created by Alexis de Tocqueville which Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn called true liberalism. According to this political theory, liberty and equality do not complement each other but are in fact contradictions. In my lecture I would like to analyze how the words "democracy" and "liberty" were evaluated in the texts of the early liberals, how and why they began to be equated with each other. In this article, I will examine three representatives of this tradition in more detail: James Fitzjames Stephen, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, and Hans-Hermann Hoppe.In the modern age – argue the liberal critiques of democracy – the lack of freedom is manifested evidently. Liberty was first eradicated by royal absolutisms and then by successive democratic revolutions. As a result, the vacuum created was replaced by the modern state with Weberian "bureaucratic authority." Modern state bureaucracy overwhelmed all sorts of public bodies, ordinances, provinces and other liberties for the sake of the abstract concept of "liberty." On the one hand, this was done in the name of equality proclaimed on the basis of parliamentary popular sovereignty, and on the other hand it was a product of totalitarianism. of the result these processes in the modern world – while liberty is constantly being eulogized and has been raised to the rank of an official ideology – there is actually less freedom than in any previous era.