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Recursion

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2. Good points all. I wasn't particularly endorsing Chesterton's view...
Mon Mar 25, 2013, 03:05 PM
Mar 2013

... it just is an interesting idea, and as always Chesterton expressed it well. Specifically, "If you want the old white post, you must have a new white post."

Modern 'conservatism', examined closely, actually has adopted the basic root of the progressive view, namely that perfection is possible.

This is one of the most important and under-appreciated aspects of American politics, IMO. As someone who is both a leftist (which I think Noah Millman described well, if broadly, as "siding with losers rather than winners&quot , and a conservative in the classical sense (ie, someone who is wary of broad, rapid change and prefers adapting existing institutions over creating new ones), I find that aspect of the American right particularly alarming.

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