—“Who Is a Conservative?”—

October 14th, 2018 3:16 PM —“WHO IS A CONSERVATIVE?”— (From Marginal Revolution) Avoiding the marxist-postmodern love of verbal sophistry: CONSERVATISM CONSISTS IN: – Empiricism as a defense against hubris. – Meritocracy as a defense against hubris. – Private Property as a defense against hubris. – Markets as a defense against hubris. – The common (natural) law of tort as a defense against hubris – The Jury-of-requisite-scale as a defense against hubris. – Late Marriage as a defense against hubris. – Intergenerational lending as a defense against hubris – Taking no action for which one cannot perform restitution(Reversal) as a defense against hubris. – Competition between the Scientific, Legal, Philosophical, and Theological as a defense against hubris. – Small Nation States as a defense against hubris. – Militias as a Defense against Hubris. (That should be enough to get the point across.) Not that Dunning-Kruger’s universal law, or the French Revolution, or all of continental philosophy, or the pseudosciences of Marx, Boas, Freud, Cantor, Adorno; or the innumeracy of the general theory’s change of economics from measurement by balance sheet to measurement by income statement; or the sophisms of Derrida through Rorty and Rawls …. none need explaining to a Conservative. 😉