08-10-2020, 03:27 AM
For a long time I have made an ‘arrow of progress’ part of my perspective, advocating for it in many threads on this and predecessor forums. Assuming the Agricultural Age was horrible, starting about the Enlightenment, the result of every crisis was to promote democracy, human rights, and equality. Given that two cultures get well defined and debated during the unraveling, and one of the two crushed in the crisis heart, the objective is to know in advance which one is to be crushed. Since the Enlightenment, it has been the one resisting the arrow of democracy, human rights and equality.
Oh, few are giving credit to the old philosophers anymore, or viewing it as an ongoing struggle that has been going on for centuries. Still, if you want to know which culture is going to be crushed, it is the one opposing democracy, human rights and equality.
I’ve known that all along. The red culture was going bye bye. I didn’t know how it was going to happen until recently. Cultures are incredibly stubborn. Still, transformation is what has always happened. Those clinging to autocratic rule, inequality and privilege were going to be trampled.
When I was first chasing this principle, there was frequently a position proposed that the arrow did not exist. It was claimed that the victors write the history books and make themselves the heroes. Yet, I have not seen that argument made recently. There has been enough repeats of the old way of doing things being crushed. I just haven’t seen the argument it in a while.
But is there another arrow? Can a true red believer articulate a red version, an equivalent set of values, a set of principles that has triumphed come the crisis?
I know one such principle is that it has always been that way, that it has always been profitable, and therefore it would always be that way. There has always been a king. All civilizations are built on the cornerstone of slavery. The government has never had the power to regulate the economy. The United States has always been isolationist, and lets these minor skirmishes over in Europe pass by without interference. That which always has been shall forever be?
But as a progressive I am dubious about that sort of logic. At least, it doesn’t seem to apply in a crisis heart.
But can you articulate another set of virtues, another set of principles? I mean, there should be more to being a conservative than fighting democracy, human rights and equality. What are reds fighting for?
Oh, few are giving credit to the old philosophers anymore, or viewing it as an ongoing struggle that has been going on for centuries. Still, if you want to know which culture is going to be crushed, it is the one opposing democracy, human rights and equality.
I’ve known that all along. The red culture was going bye bye. I didn’t know how it was going to happen until recently. Cultures are incredibly stubborn. Still, transformation is what has always happened. Those clinging to autocratic rule, inequality and privilege were going to be trampled.
When I was first chasing this principle, there was frequently a position proposed that the arrow did not exist. It was claimed that the victors write the history books and make themselves the heroes. Yet, I have not seen that argument made recently. There has been enough repeats of the old way of doing things being crushed. I just haven’t seen the argument it in a while.
But is there another arrow? Can a true red believer articulate a red version, an equivalent set of values, a set of principles that has triumphed come the crisis?
I know one such principle is that it has always been that way, that it has always been profitable, and therefore it would always be that way. There has always been a king. All civilizations are built on the cornerstone of slavery. The government has never had the power to regulate the economy. The United States has always been isolationist, and lets these minor skirmishes over in Europe pass by without interference. That which always has been shall forever be?
But as a progressive I am dubious about that sort of logic. At least, it doesn’t seem to apply in a crisis heart.
But can you articulate another set of virtues, another set of principles? I mean, there should be more to being a conservative than fighting democracy, human rights and equality. What are reds fighting for?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
