—“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. 😉