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so "the liberal" is an imaginary category that refers to all the people who are not john galt. they wish they were john galt. they are driven by resentment. their Evil originates in the fact that they cannot also be john galt.
what separates conservativeland---and here we are talking about conservativeland, and not about the complexes of positions occupied by individual human beings, who are always more complex than the ideological frames they can take up would have you think---from everyone else are fundamental differences on political and ethical priorities and differing conceptions of how to move the social machine from a--where it is now--to b, where it could or should be.
there are business and moral reasons to make such arguments.
the state is typically seen---one way or another--as an instrument for directing the largely blind and self-serving machinery of capitalism away from pathological outcomes.
there are basic philosophical differences that separate conservativeland from other people on the question of the redistribution of wealth--what it does, what it can do.
basically, conservativeland is a self-help manual for petit-bourgeois self-disempowerment. if it is taken seriously as a policy map, it does not open onto some imaginary "real capitalism"-----it opens onto a kind of feudalism in which the plutcracy does what it wants and the lesser beings run around bragging about how very john galt they are while they work as sharecroppers for the Lords and console themselves by hoarding weapons.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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