There's a lot of bullshit in conservative thinking. (Keep reading for the "but...")
Some of it is expressed by Frank Wilhoit famous quip: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition. There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Some of it is inherited from the close-mindedness of its historical origins in British shopkeeper mentality, horrified at the violent jolts of the French Revolution. (Burke, Dickens)
And some of it comes from the hijacking by billionaires trying to enroll conservative movements in the defense of their interests.
BUT...
(says the 55-year old graduate student in ethics)
There's also a lot of respectable thinking there, and a healthy disrespect of pharisaism. Contemporary liberalism too often degenerates in simple rules for being holier-than-thou.
Against the doctrinal excesses in display in the US academic setting, one should pay some attention to the reasonable dissenting voices.
As Albert Maysles is supposed to have said: "Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance."
Some of it is expressed by Frank Wilhoit famous quip: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition. There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Some of it is inherited from the close-mindedness of its historical origins in British shopkeeper mentality, horrified at the violent jolts of the French Revolution. (Burke, Dickens)
And some of it comes from the hijacking by billionaires trying to enroll conservative movements in the defense of their interests.
BUT...
(says the 55-year old graduate student in ethics)
There's also a lot of respectable thinking there, and a healthy disrespect of pharisaism. Contemporary liberalism too often degenerates in simple rules for being holier-than-thou.
Against the doctrinal excesses in display in the US academic setting, one should pay some attention to the reasonable dissenting voices.
As Albert Maysles is supposed to have said: "Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance."