1/ Conservative isn't so much an ideology, but advancing sclerosis. It's the increasing failure to adapt to realities unceasing change — a sort of biological fixedness that fixes priors to an increasingly earlier time — manifested in politics.
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4/ None of this is to say that gross and asymmetrical pathologies don't develop when particular recognizable groups with recognizable ideologies-as-reality-navigating-loss-functions lose the plot. For example, in the US right now, the Evangelical-
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5/ BUT, one of the precipitating factors of that advanced stage of disease is the out of hand rejection of any way of making sense of the world that isn't yours. Your experiences aren't universal. You aren't the only one capable of thinking...
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6/ And it's easy to write and read smart-sounding but ultimately self-soothing bullshit.
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