1/ It’s time I took a stand. I was a Marxist-Leninist as a teenager and young adult. Then I was a kind of half-arsed Marxist in my early to mid 20s. I don’t mind being on the outside or unpopular. What now? Deep conservatism. What do I mean by that?
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3/ What do I mean by deep conservativism? This is what I am against: corporations, technocracies, the sexual market place, technocratic liberalism, social liberalism, casino capitalism, the middle class in power, the dissolution of boundaries (national/personal/sexual)...
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4/...socialism, Marxism, (any -ism), scientism, planning, social engineering, rationalism, feminism, “LGBT”, open borders, abstraction, pedantry, mass entertainment, abortion, over-mathematisation, cosmopolitanism, moralism, & abstraction.
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5/ What do I favour? The polis, the Tao, the local, the rooted, the concrete, the instinctive, the mystical, virtue, the body and mind as one system, the wisdom of nature, history, truth, discipline, sacrifice, poetry, music, love, the family, God, falcons, & nature.
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6/ There is a hidden order to all life. Deviation from that order means, sooner or later, material—then spiritual—death. This law governs our biology and our technology—both adhere to the same rules.
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7/ The deep conservative position seeks to maintain our societies in accordance with the hidden order of life. Life is not stasis. Life is a dance, a poem, a long walk, and a journey. We maintain the pattern of order, but we reiterate it at a higher level.
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8/ Deep conservatives despise: bureaucrats, prudes, puritans, moralism, schoolmarms, centralisation, Nazis, fascists, prigs, the pious, bullies, demogaogues, racial narcissists, prigs, bigots, Communists, pornographers & the pornographic, democrats, & feminists.
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9/ Deep conservatives adore: rebels (not revolutionaries), lovers, experimenters, artists, caviliars, dandies, aristocrats, the erotic, love, poetry, the sublime & beauty, the eccentric, the pirates, the bandits, individualists, idiosyncratic, the beautiful, and the merciful.
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