No, but there seems to be a pretty strong correlation, as argued by Steven Pinker in 'The Blank Slate'
Thomas Sowell (1987) called this the 'tragic vision' of life, in contrast to the Leftist 'utopian' view of life. If your heart resonated to LOTR, you may already be a tragic-vision conservative. https://twitter.com/Gromaticus/status/948610120778469376 …
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Minor correction Geoff. Sowell referred to these two visions as the 'constrained' and 'unconstrained' visions in A Conflict of Visions (1987). Steven Pinker has referred to them as 'tragic' and 'utopian' visions in The Blank Slate and Better Angels of Our Nature.
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great article in Quillete--- I was amazed you were a college student. More accurately, I said, "amazingly ok" as an articld when I retweeted, but it really is pretty good. Be ecnouarged.
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Or a Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, animist, ancient pagan Greek or Roman. Historically utopianism is the exception not the norm.
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Long may this "long defeat" (aka progress) continue, however it might pain those with a big amygdala (
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Oddly, I never cared for LOTR. I actually spent time in a seminary and knew guys who grew up reading Tolkein like I grew up reading Shakespeare, but it never grabbed me. (Movies or books.) But I agree with Sowell about the 'tragic vision' and do have that. Go figure...
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Life is series of battles with entropy, in a war that we all eventually lose
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What would be the fantasy universe for utopians? Could it be Harry Potter as
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I favor the redemptive view of history, myself. How can a Christian possibly expect history to be a long defeat?! Jesus is triumphant!
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