I don't believe this for a second. Because the definitions of "liberal" and "conservative", and the political cleavages involved, change so much from era to era. There's no way genetics changes along with the definitions and the issues.https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1134877455813087232 …
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Maybe genetics has some influence on how much people are instinctively scared of novelty, or whatever. But I don't believe there's any stable correlation between that attitude and liberalism/conservatism.
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Despite the name, "conservatism" isn't always about skepticism of change. Often, it involves attempts at radical change to "restore" a country to a mostly-imagined past that no one actually has any memory of.
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Pre-Obama, the two things I most associate with conservatism in my adult lifetime are the Iraq War and the attempted privatization of Social Security, both of which seem to test high on "open to new experiences."
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I also associate conservatism with "let's continue with fossil fuels and climate be damned" which is, in many ways, the most radical gamble in human history. Openness to new experience indeed.
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I've come more & more to consider the left the stabilizing wing of ideology. It's always about imposing constraints on the economy & securing/ restoring basic social obligations on some level, going back to the utopian socialism that emerged in response to early industrialization
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I have 8 weeks left to make this pile of mess into the actual thing, but the book I have coming out next year is all about this. The US history and battles defining freedom through constraints on the economy, freedom as being free from the market. It's a crazy history!
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Mike, this book is out of print, but available at the library. Totally on point for your project.https://twitter.com/toddntucker/status/1135203588656050181?s=19 …
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Todd N. TuckerVerified account @toddntuckerI really enjoyed this book Technology as Freedom by Ronald Tobey. It is a story I hadn't previously read, about the New Deal's electrification projects as a change in our relationships to our natural environment and our private lives. https://books.google.com/books/about/Technology_as_Freedom.html?id=0geUkFJjbzEC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
Sounds fascinating.
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