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How would Conservatism or Liberalism go full circle?

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If you take dualities to their extreme they tend to go full circle. How would Liberalism or conservatism go full circle? 
 

 


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They come full circle in the life-cycle of a civilisation.

For example, look at the American situation today and how inverted it has become. The Conservatives want to destroy America and the Liberals want to conserve it… Conservatism and Liberalism have come full circle!


America is a corpse being devoured by maggots. Republicans defend the corpse, Democrats defend the maggots.

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I am getting so many insights here while I am shopping that I can’t write them down


 "Unburdened and Becoming" - Bon Iver

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When a Conservative knows they can no longer conserve, they will instead seek to destroy. Out of that destruction, there is the hope that something new might arise that is worth preserving. As a thirst for something new, this can look like Liberalism. You see this in the more extreme and iconoclastic strands of Conservative thought, for example in Nietzsche’s Antichrist. Nazism also was extremely destructive of traditional German culture.

On the other hand, when a society is extremely liberal, Liberals will of course want to conserve it!


America is a corpse being devoured by maggots. Republicans defend the corpse, Democrats defend the maggots.

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This is epitomised in Nietzsche’s phrase: “That which you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster!”


America is a corpse being devoured by maggots. Republicans defend the corpse, Democrats defend the maggots.

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@Thought Art Conservatism isn’t necessarily the opposite of liberalism. They are not mutually exclusive. 


"Not believing your own thoughts, you’re free from the primal desire: the thought that reality should be different than it is. You realise the wordless, the unthinkable. You understand that any mystery is only what you yourself have created. In fact, there’s no mystery. Everything is as clear as day. It’s simple, because there really isn’t anything. There’s only the story appearing now. And not even that.” — Byron Katie

 

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