Progressives will always side with a modern lie against an old truth. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
... Reactionaries, who reflexively take the side of old lies against modern truths provide no serious alternative. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
... Hence Neoreaction. You don't get realism on the cheap by just checking the date.
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Replying to @Neoabsolutism
Burkean means evolutionary traditionalism, doesn't it? Isn't that what the word 'Neoreaction' says too?
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Replying to @Outsideness
The claim requires unpacking. 1)What is being claimed by evolutionary? 2) what/who possesses agency here? 3) what is tradition? Etc.
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Replying to @Neoabsolutism
Those questions will be worked out within evolutionary traditions (or they won't be worked out at all).
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Replying to @Outsideness
That is consigning the human to a mindless random agent with no possibility for thought, reason or planning.
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Humans have very limited capacities for thought, reason, and planning, which reliably lead to disaster when inflated beyond a small scale.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Well, here you are granting agency at what you (I presume) see as sub-governmental, as per Burke. Hence need to add size qualifier.
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