A Sketch of the Case against Conservatism
Welcome to my new blog! No, it is not a bias to oppose conservatism. There is within range of every mind a place of objective measure, a place too ultimate to be challenged from higher or parallel perspectives. And we all have access to it through a mysterious and largely undefinable power, that of consciousness itself. This is no easy proposition to prove. Gradually, over the past seventy years, we have come to accept the conservative notion that every political viewpoint is, by definition, a bias, meaning that we are without an objective platform from which to assess them. The moment you take a side, the thinking goes, you have succumbed to a set of blinders and to a motivation to match. This blog, and its principle resource, my paper, Without Mercy and Therefore without Veracity: Conservatism as an Inversion of Basic Consciousness , is dedicated to refuting this idea. [The paper is available in both PDF and web page format linked both here and in this blog’s sideb...