This sounds more like paleoconservatism.
Not surprisingly, I was more influenced by neoconservatism, and perhaps still am. Paleos tend to hate the neos. Also not surprising.
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
-Edmund Burke, on the inseperable connection between virtue and liberty
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This really IS absolutely brilliant, having just read it again. It’s the key to everything and it cannot be legislated.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
-Edmund Burke, on the inseperable connection between virtue and liberty
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This really IS absolutely brilliant, having just read it again. It’s the key to everything and it cannot be legislated.[/quote]
It is - that man really was a genius in so many ways. Anyone know where this particular quote is from?
[quote]katzenjammer wrote:
It is - that man really was a genius in so many ways. Anyone know where this particular quote is from? [/quote]
Burke’s Letter to a Member of the National Assembly in Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs, 1791:
[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
This sounds more like paleoconservatism.
Not surprisingly, I was more influenced by neoconservatism, and perhaps still am. Paleos tend to hate the neos. Also not surprising.[/quote]
Not sure I really hate anyone - certainly that’s not how I define myself anyway!
I don’t really get these labels or take them all that seriously - especially when it comes to myself and people I know; meaning, I think, that the more one knows a person the less labels like this seem to apply.
However, I suppose the “Paleo” description is fairly accurate, as far as it goes.
I see the take on Conservatism above as simply a Conservatism that is deeply informed by its own past.