heres an archive link https://archive.ph/iLnCx
The conservative project has failed, and conservatives need to forge a new political identity that reflects our revolutionary moment.
This article is literally just saying we need to be fascist without actually saying the word fascist
the classical pre 1789 meaning of revolution. the revolution of the planets. regression. restoration.
They do want to do a revolution.
Where white straight men and women are allowed to work 60 hours a week with no healthcare or vacation, the rich are payed a tithe by all, and everyone else is dead.
So is this some crowd sourced rebranding effort? May I suggest "fascists"?
I mean, ultimately most of them are objectively not conservative so it makes sense :shrug-outta-hecks: If any party wants to conserve the status quo it's pretty clearly the Democrats.
Don't conservatives do this every 10 years? Ten years ago they all wanted to be libertarians, before that there were "new democrats." There are conservatives now who are embarrassed about it calling themselves classical liberals.
They go in cycles where people get pissed at liberals for something, or liberals fail to present an alternatives, then conservative ideology starts crawling back. Then there's a public backlash because conservatives are undead lizard creatures so they have to try and rebrand.
In a recent essay for Compact, Jon Askonas argues convincingly that the conservative project failed because “it didn’t take into account the revolutionary principle of technology, and its intrinsic connection to the telos of sheer profit.” Conservatives, he says, were too obsessed with “left-wing revolutionary politics” and missed the real threat, which was technological change so swift and powerful it fundamentally reordered society, swept tradition aside, and unleashed a moral relativism that rendered the conservative project obsolete.
Instead of questioning these technologies, asking whether they would contribute to human flourishing, conservatives acquiesced to their inevitability and focused instead on narrower issues. The result has been the transformation of society within the span of a single human lifetime, and with it the wholesale destruction of our traditions and the looming implosion of Western civilization.
A Marxist thing happened to you or some shit
"Instead of questioning these technologies, asking whether they would contribute to human flourishing, conservatives acquiesced to their inevitability and focused instead on narrower issues."
Boomers always on their phones :grillman:
Huh, conservatives with a revolutionary movement...
If only there was a word for revolutionary conservatism.
How bout instead of conservatives they call themselves preservatives and pack themselves into little jars with a lot of sugar for the winter
It is pretty incredible how he frames it like the conservatives are in retreat in the current political situation. If only he realized that their astounding success in the last 50 years is what largely created this current miserable situation.
I didn't realize the "republicans aren't real conservatives because everything they advocate is intrusive and expensive" talking point bothered them that much, but if it does, this should nip it right in the bud.
Put bluntly, if conservatives want to save the country they are going to have to rebuild and in a sense re-found it, and that means getting used to the idea of wielding power, not despising it.
Ah yes, conservatives are famous for hating to wield power.
