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. 😉