conservatism
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conservatism is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 04, 2022 and June 28, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Progressivism, like conservatism and every other political philosophy”; “I find nothing in the conservative moral tradition remotely resembling this sacrifice”. It most often appears alongside America, God, 2023 special.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 04, 2022
- Last seen: June 28, 2024
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- America (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Progressivism, like conservatism and every other political philosophy, is big and complicated and self-contradictory. It tells a lot of stories to define and justify itself. Here are two of them:
When Scully reflects on all that he’s witnessed, he is dismayed at the bastardization of conservatism that can justify what he saw at the Safari Club convention and on the Smithfield pork farm:
“I find nothing in the conservative moral tradition remotely resembling this sacrifice of every creature in sight before the almighty dollar. It is a different spirit entirely. It isn’t rooted in conservatism, or Christianity, or Judaism, or classic capitalism, or any other tradition with honorable origin. It is much closer to what, in conservative big-think circles, they call ‘the modern spirit.’ Friedrich Nietzsche, despite a personal abhorrence to animal cruelty, would today fit right in at one of our libertarian think tanks with his notions of human morality: ‘Life is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering what is alien and weaker, suppression, hardness, imposition of one’s own forms...exploitation.’”