Cliff Adams

About The Author

Cliff Adams is 54 years old, an American living in Germany for the past 8 years.  At the age of 17 he fell in love with the philosophy of freedom after reading Susan Love et. al.'s book The Incredible Bread Machine, at the same time he was falling in love with Vedic philosophy and practice.  Following Socrates dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living, he went to St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. which started a lifetime love affair with philosophy and the classics. 

Now, after 32 years of applying  both Eastern and western philosophy and practice to the matter of human development, he is finally ready to start writing.

About The Column

This column starts from the question, why aren't we winning?  When I say "we" I mean in general the ideology of limited government , personal freedom and personal responsibility, currently identified for the most part as Libertarians, Conservatives and Constitutionalists.  The objective is to dig deep into current philosophy and strategy, and to create a new context for a national and global phase shift, from collectivism to freedom, from dependence to responsibility.  To accomplish that, it may be that the old way of overcoming the opposition is obsolete; what is needed is to create a whole new way of formulating our position, moving it to a higher and more inclusive level, such that the oposition, for the most part is included rather than defeated, but in  a way that creates the desired phase shift.   A phase shift is a radical change in the parts of a system, which results in a radical change in the operation of the entire system of which they are parts, as when water turns to ice, or to steam.  This is not Dialectic, it is not a slight of hand, but a very deep inquiry into the nature of political discourse, and the nature of man's relationship to the body politic, and to life itself.