A casual conversation to start the post holiday week: Do you see yourself or a particular set of people as truly better, more worthy, more deserving of power and resources than other people? I don’t, and it’s the primary way I understood that I was unlike my brother, my friend Casey, and many other conservatives in my hometown. It was a lonely feeling until I moved out of rural Upstate New York.
Defending Hierarchy: the Conservative Impulse
It is allegiance which defines the condition of society, and which constitutes society as something greater than the ‘aggregate of individuals’ that the liberal mind perceives. It is proper for conservatives to be sceptical of claims made on behalf of the value of the individual, if these claims should conflict
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