I think it was Chesterton who said that all conservatives conserve any more are yesterday’s advances of the progressives. We can see this perfectly in the defense of Andrew Tate and his prostitution ring.
Yes, even liberals have realized that their defense of unsavory sexual practices is off-putting. Time for conservatives to take over this losing cause and immolate themselves for the “freedom” of Tate to whore out himself and others.
“all conservatives conserve any more are yesterday’s advances of the progressives”
Well…. most of the time progress is mostly good…
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“every social reform, every scientific advance… eventually outruns its usefulness ”
Which is why you want to preserve an earlier stage… rather than undo everything and end up with the same awfulness that caused people to want to change it… three steps forward one or two steps back is, all in all, a reasonable approach to lots of issues.
There’s a business term for this. Right on the tip of my tongue, and… no. Something like “point of last good”– Like, we changed stuff and now nothing’s working, what settings were we using the last time stuff actually worked? Let’s go back to those.
I think, to some extent, we are seeing this as a cultural/religious phenomenon. A lot of the more thoughtful younger people are waking up in a social existence where nothing works, asking themselves, basically, “what were people doing the last time things were working?” and… showing up in church. It has been a weird and wonderful thing to see, and I’m so curious where that road takes them. Massive religious revival? Quick burnout? Something else?
I have a feeling that if any of them spoke aloud a positive word about Communism, the parish Romanian and Ukrainian ladies would probably swoop down and chew their ears until they cried. They don’t, though. At least some of them have read Fr. George Calciu, or at least the Fr. Arseny stories, before they even turn up at our parish.
That’s probably church-specific selection bias. I have no idea about the ones showing up at other churches and religious organizations.
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