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Jun. 3rd, 2025 | 10:45 am
Classic liberalism works ONLY because it accepts certain conservative values without questioning.
John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke would never "deconstruct" marriage, family, sexes, races and classes.
Today, both classic liberalism and classic conservatism are almost entirely swept into a basket of ultra-right "deplorables".
The primacy of personal liberty, protected by firmly written and well-practised law within any given society, over that society's mores and powers is what makes a distinction between Liberal and Conservative - yet today this distinction is almost entirely and deliberately forgotten and turned to null. Surely, for personal liberty to exist in Liberal terms and be protected and such, the person must be born into the given society in Conservative terms.
What comes first, Liberalism or Conservatism? It is a chicken-and-egg question. Sure, dinosaurs laid eggs before chickens came to be, but chickens lay eggs for "us", not the philosophical abstraction.
John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke would never "deconstruct" marriage, family, sexes, races and classes.
Today, both classic liberalism and classic conservatism are almost entirely swept into a basket of ultra-right "deplorables".
The primacy of personal liberty, protected by firmly written and well-practised law within any given society, over that society's mores and powers is what makes a distinction between Liberal and Conservative - yet today this distinction is almost entirely and deliberately forgotten and turned to null. Surely, for personal liberty to exist in Liberal terms and be protected and such, the person must be born into the given society in Conservative terms.
What comes first, Liberalism or Conservatism? It is a chicken-and-egg question. Sure, dinosaurs laid eggs before chickens came to be, but chickens lay eggs for "us", not the philosophical abstraction.