Brownstone Institute – defending the spirit of Enlightenment

This article is Brownstone Institute’s background information.

Faith Reporters chose to publish the organisation’s background because it communicates the sacred, universal desire to be free and the struggles that saved humanity from the deception of “Common Good” which is actually never common to the many.

Brownstone Institute has played a vital role in advocating for a balance between public health measures and people’s freedom in this Covid era in the USA and the world at large.

As you read it, you’ll find that its cause is a universal cause and its loud words are the same as the faint ones we hear coming from masked mouths.

Good luck

About Brownstone Institute

The Brownstone Institute is a non-profit organization founded in May 2021.

Its vision is of a society that places the highest value on the voluntary interaction of individuals and groups while minimizing the use of violence and force including that which is exercised by public or private authorities.

This vision is that of the Enlightenment which elevated learning, science, progress, and universal rights to the forefront of public life.

It is constantly threatened by ideologies and systems that would take the world back to before the triumph of the ideal of freedom.

The motive force of Brownstone Institute was the global crisis created by policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.

That trauma revealed a fundamental misunderstanding alive in all countries around the world today, a willingness on the part of the public and officials to relinquish freedom and fundamental human rights in the name of managing a public health crisis, which was not managed well in most countries. The consequences were devastating and will live in infamy.

The policy response was a failed experiment in full social and economic control in most nations. And yet the lockdowns are also widely considered a template of what is possible.

It’s not just about this one crisis but past and future ones as well. This lesson concerns the desperate need for a new outlook that rejects the power of the legally privileged few to rule over the many under any pretext.

The name Brownstone originates from the malleable, but long-lasting building stone (also called “Freestone”) used so commonly in 19th-century American cities, preferred for its beauty, practicality, and strength.

The Brownstone Institute regards the great task of our times as rebuilding the foundation of liberalism as classically understood, including core values of human rights and freedom as non-negotiables for an enlightened society.

Our mission

The mission of the Brownstone Institute – which is, in many ways, the spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration – is constructively to come to terms with what happened, understand why, discover and explain alternative paths, and seek reforms to prevent such events from happening again.

Lockdowns and mandates have set a precedent in the modern world and without accountability, social and economic institutions will be shattered once again.

Brownstone Institute plays an essential role in preventing a recurrence by holding decision-makers, media elites, technology companies, and intellectuals accountable.

This is especially true given the ubiquity of tech censorship.

In addition, the Brownstone Institute hopes to shed light on a path to recovery from the devastating collateral damage, while providing a vision for a different way to think about freedom, security, and public life.

Brownstone Institute looks to influence a post-lockdown world by generating new ideas in public health, philosophy, scientific discourse, economics, and social theory.

It hopes to enlighten and mobilize public life to defend and promote the liberty that is critical for an enlightened society from which everyone benefits.

The purpose is to point the way toward a better understanding of essential freedoms – including intellectual freedom and free speech – and the proper means to preserve essential rights even in times of crisis.

The research and content of the institute are sophisticated but accessible. Operationally, Brownstone’s mode is no fluff in the budget, no bureaucrats, no cronies, only a highly competent small team working to change the world.

It will have media reach and call on scientists, intellectuals, and others who are dedicated to this task.

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