John Donne too
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Other conservative writers high on openness to experience element of personality: Shakespeare, Stoppard, Swift.
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The 18th-century great man of letters Samuel Johnson was another.
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Boswell, even more so.
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There's "I'm scared of things" conservative, and then there's "people can't be improved so knock off the utopias" conservative. Most great writers are the latter, even if they call themselves something else.
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You really read Oscar Wilde's plays, he was the latter... all while banging rent boys long before it was a job requirement for the NYT.
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TS Eliot speaks well for the Anglo-American conservative: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
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Complicated by the fact that, in modern times, to be "conservative" is often to be "radical."
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Isn't Openness To Experience basically a test of intellectual confidence/pride? From Wikipedia, sample questions: "I have excellent ideas. I am quick to understand things. I use difficult words. I am full of ideas. I have difficulty understanding abstract ideas. (reversed)"
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Well, I should have said "largely a test of..." not "basically a test of"
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Chesterton put Kipling in his, "Heretics," book alongside people such as Bernard Shaw, and H.G Wells.
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milton friedman. thomas sowell - the Search for Cosmic Justice.
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When openness is used to describe libs, it's a very charitable way of saying: vain, selfish, open to not letting the wellbeing of others (or my children) interfere with cheap thrills and my desire to feel modern.
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Gertrude Stein was pretty politically conservative (granted she was a lesbian) and she was part of those early modernists whose writings were considered paradigm-shifting.
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Openness - at least in the sense of trying to get inside the head of the whole diversity of God's creatures - was pretty much Kipling's defining passion
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