- 21 May 2017 16:25
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I argue this point because in real life, the real problem of conservatism isn't that it's an ideology of principle, but that it's non-ideological.
Conservatives basically come in three forms depending on class:
Aristocratically elitist spoiled brats,
Conformists who are obsessed with going along with the flow and not rocking the boat, and
Anti-intellectuals who are about folk community common sense.
All three of these groups have deconstructive senses of time. They have a way of life while ignoring the potential for diversity in society. If you try to have a reasonable conversation with them, then they label you as ridiculously absurd while insisting on learning from experience to get away with appeals to tradition. They want proof which depends on an attempt which depends on proof which depends on an attempt, so the vicious cycle goes on and on, amounting to a self-fulfilling prophecy of a stubborn status quo. Their goal in using deconstruction is to nitpick at the details of being openminded. For example, if you claim they shouldn't push their values onto others in expecting others to live their way of life, they say you insisting on them being tolerant is you pushing your value onto them despite how that's not the same point. There's a difference between a personal value and a social value. The first is your own opinion on what's valuable in life. The second is a standard on how people interact among our lives.
In any case, we see a lot of this sort of behavior within the left today, but it doesn't actually achieve any progress. In reality, what it enables is people being wise guys in academia only to get battered in the real world. It doesn't actually achieve any sort of equality. Instead, it attacks reformists on the conservative side of the equation who are trying to fix this problem from the inside out. The problem continues to fester, and when the reformists are destroyed, those who destroyed them get destroyed next. We see this now with how Trump supporters are destroying the left today by embarrassing it into looking like a bunch of sensitive snowflakes, and we saw this before from how the Nazis destroyed the communists in Weimar Germany after Zentrum was dismantled within the Weimar Coalition.
The bottomline is deconstruction does not help the left. It only sets it up for disaster. It enables the prejudices of the right to carry on behind the scenes while targeting others who really aren't the problem. In turn, those who actually are prejudiced on the right continue with their prejudices, and the victims of those prejudices are never actually liberated.
Conservatives basically come in three forms depending on class:
Aristocratically elitist spoiled brats,
Conformists who are obsessed with going along with the flow and not rocking the boat, and
Anti-intellectuals who are about folk community common sense.
All three of these groups have deconstructive senses of time. They have a way of life while ignoring the potential for diversity in society. If you try to have a reasonable conversation with them, then they label you as ridiculously absurd while insisting on learning from experience to get away with appeals to tradition. They want proof which depends on an attempt which depends on proof which depends on an attempt, so the vicious cycle goes on and on, amounting to a self-fulfilling prophecy of a stubborn status quo. Their goal in using deconstruction is to nitpick at the details of being openminded. For example, if you claim they shouldn't push their values onto others in expecting others to live their way of life, they say you insisting on them being tolerant is you pushing your value onto them despite how that's not the same point. There's a difference between a personal value and a social value. The first is your own opinion on what's valuable in life. The second is a standard on how people interact among our lives.
In any case, we see a lot of this sort of behavior within the left today, but it doesn't actually achieve any progress. In reality, what it enables is people being wise guys in academia only to get battered in the real world. It doesn't actually achieve any sort of equality. Instead, it attacks reformists on the conservative side of the equation who are trying to fix this problem from the inside out. The problem continues to fester, and when the reformists are destroyed, those who destroyed them get destroyed next. We see this now with how Trump supporters are destroying the left today by embarrassing it into looking like a bunch of sensitive snowflakes, and we saw this before from how the Nazis destroyed the communists in Weimar Germany after Zentrum was dismantled within the Weimar Coalition.
The bottomline is deconstruction does not help the left. It only sets it up for disaster. It enables the prejudices of the right to carry on behind the scenes while targeting others who really aren't the problem. In turn, those who actually are prejudiced on the right continue with their prejudices, and the victims of those prejudices are never actually liberated.