Whatever “conservatism” is, it does not involve the conservation of a stable climate, or the polar ice caps, or the coral reefs, or the global food supply.
Whatever “conservatism” is, it does not involve the conservation of a stable climate, or the polar ice caps, or the coral reefs, or the global food supply.
Conservatism may look irrational, outdated and destructive. In fact I’m fairly confident it is all those things *right now * in many places.
Look bigger though, imagine why it exists.
It is the natural end point of any push for change. Any system that manifests in the world will inevitably be challenged by further future. Each revolution is faced with the next one.
It is inevitable that when a system comes to dominance there are those who wish to preserve and conserve it, all the energy that was put into change is focused on conserving the system.
The problem is the context keeps changing and the revolution never fits reality for long.
Conservatism in US today does not want to preserve what we have today, but go back in time to restore what they think we had in the past.
What we had in the past:
Abortion rights
That’s not what they think we had planned n the past.
Yeah, it does seem to be going to extremes in some places, especially with the extremists in the USA
Then we should get rid of Walmart and Amazon, grow the majority of our food locally, and largely deconstruct cities in favor of Main Street America centered on local production of high quality repairable goods.
But I’m sure they’d say no, not like that.