by Keith Burgess-Jackson. Lest you get the wrong impression, KBJ is a conservative, and my points take off from his and travel in the same general direction.
"To a conservative, humans are imperfectible. They are corrupt by nature, always prone to doing evil, and in standing need of oversight and correction. (You don't have to be religious to believe this, although it helps.)"
It's funny that Marxists, and any other believers in dialectical reasoning, never consider that we engage in dialectic every day with everyone we know, and that this by itself might constitute the great social corrective we're all seeking.
"One engine of correction is the state, which is why conservatives are not anarchists. Another engine is tradition, which, to a conservative, is simply accumulated wisdom, the very embodiment of reason. Yet another is religion."
Like Federalism--powers are divided. We Libertarians wonder why we can't just keep on dividing them down to the individual level. Individualize sovereignty!
"Conservatives, who oppose many liberal causes, are benighted, whereas liberals are enlightened. Conservatives are not just wrong; they are willfully and perversely wrong. They are intransigent. They are bigoted, prejudiced, superstitious, and vile."
It's funny that the most intentionally intransigent, willfully and perversely ignorant people in our society, inner-city gangsters, are the darlings of the left. Of course, conservatives refuse to accept their proper status as victims of the power structure.
Oop! The baby's calling.
Sunday, February 08, 2004
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