As I have said elsewhere, conservatism as an ideological enterprise seems to go bad. Just as progressivism as an ideological enterprise seems to go bad (which I have not talked about much to date, but probably should).
If you look at the history of both in America, there is a lot of ugly. Even more if you expand the scope to outside of Am…
As I have said elsewhere, conservatism as an ideological enterprise seems to go bad. Just as progressivism as an ideological enterprise seems to go bad (which I have not talked about much to date, but probably should).
If you look at the history of both in America, there is a lot of ugly. Even more if you expand the scope to outside of America.
Both are too focused on change--the conservatives as something to be resisted at almost all cost and progressives as something to be expedited at all cost. Neither lives in the actual moment. These (increasingly) seems top be a problem in American Culture at large. No one seems to be present in the here and now.
Both are, in the end authoritarian... because they cannot get what they want without being so. They both, in the end wish to create a uniform culture (at least uniform in the ways that count). And, again, you need to be authoritarian to get that.
We can look at conservatism and we can see evils that we know (because they are rooted clearly in our past). It is somewhat more difficult to see the evils of progressivism, as that is a more recent phenomenon and there are not so many examples--but there are some pretty bad ones--pick pretty much any revolutionary movement starting with the French revolution.
As I have said elsewhere, conservatism as an ideological enterprise seems to go bad. Just as progressivism as an ideological enterprise seems to go bad (which I have not talked about much to date, but probably should).
If you look at the history of both in America, there is a lot of ugly. Even more if you expand the scope to outside of America.
Both are too focused on change--the conservatives as something to be resisted at almost all cost and progressives as something to be expedited at all cost. Neither lives in the actual moment. These (increasingly) seems top be a problem in American Culture at large. No one seems to be present in the here and now.
Both are, in the end authoritarian... because they cannot get what they want without being so. They both, in the end wish to create a uniform culture (at least uniform in the ways that count). And, again, you need to be authoritarian to get that.
We can look at conservatism and we can see evils that we know (because they are rooted clearly in our past). It is somewhat more difficult to see the evils of progressivism, as that is a more recent phenomenon and there are not so many examples--but there are some pretty bad ones--pick pretty much any revolutionary movement starting with the French revolution.
As Eric Hoffer once said "What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.“