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What exactly do Conservatives 'conserve'?
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by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News
May 2, 2006
What do Conservatives 'conserve' anyway? To answer this you must ask what is the real meaning of "Conservative"? Where did this 'idealogy' come from? Who made it up? And Why?
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When I hear some snotty elitist speak of "ordered liberty," I can't help but ask,
Liberties come in which order?
And whose liberty is the most important and first here?
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Could this two-faced social Darwinism crap really be the true unspoken
origins of Conservatism in America? 
Yes, Virginia, it is.
After all, when you look at what they say vs how what they say pans out
in the real world, you'll find out what exactly these elitists
calling themselves conservative are conserving. They are
conserving their own power, wealth, and social domination within their
own ranks... and all the talk goes to those sickening same old self-interested ends.
The central idea of The Conservative Mind, upon which American
conservatism is essentially based, is this idea called "ordered
liberty."
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But when I hear some snotty elitist speak of "ordered liberty," I
can't help but ask, Liberties come in which order? And whose liberty is
the most important and first here? And order implies a hierarchy -- where
you are located at on said hierarchy is very relevant to how "free" you
are in this "order of liberties."
In the "conservative" way of blending the sometimes contending requirements of the community and the
individual, of individual freedom and individual
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Conserving The Race: Natural Aristocracies,
Eugenics, and the U.S. Conservation Movement
by Gray Brechin, Antipode| |
Excerpt: In The Conquest of A Continent, for example, Grant relates how the
Nordic (Aryan, etc.) race forcefully occupied North America,
destroying its forests, looting its minerals, exhausting its soils, and
evicting the Indians: "Waste was the order of the day in America:"| |
All this was perhaps inevitable, but never since Caesar plundered Gaul has so large a territory been sacked in so short a time. Probably no more destructive human being has ever appeared on the world stage than the American pioneer with his axe and rifle. Yet it was precisely those pioneers whom the Boone and Crockett Club eponymously honored, and who were perennially invoked as emblematic of Racial Will -- of the daring, dash, and ruthless enterprise which had lifted America to world dominance, and Grant, Osborn, Roosevelt, et al. to the apex of its social ladder. Grant's plunderers were those same industrialists and bankers (or the fathers who bequeathed them fortunes from the sacking) who, at the turn of the century, took up the twin causes of conservation and eugenics. | |
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responsibility, of
limited government and unlimited markets, it always favors the most
powerful and their interests first. Their "order" makes sure they are
first in line for everything but work, submission, responsibility and
deprivation.
The order is switched around rhetorically when it is most
convenient to these elites getting theirs. When big uncreative
corporations can't deal with the upstart competition of creative people
from below outdoing them, then the markets are "too free" and they get
limited in the favor of the big gorillas (to preserve the top-down
divine order). If markets make big gorilla monopolies that ruthlessly
plunder the people, well, then the big gorillas are just the divine working order of the market.
There are six basic "canons" or principles of conservatism. After each, I will observe how those six canons of conservatism seem
to pan out in reality.
#1 A divine intent, as well as personal conscience, rules society.
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Underground Panther in the Sky
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| | UnSpun that is another way of saying, The Divine right of kings. If by
divinity they mean Christian it is a theocracy. If there is one God, one
creator, then one king is divinely appointed, well it must be God's chosen
ruler on top, if society is run hierarchically by divine order. |
#2 Traditional life is filled with variety and mystery while most
radical systems are characterized by a narrowing uniformity ...
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Their "order" makes sure they are first in line for everything but work, submission, responsibility and deprivation.
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Tell that shit about "variety and mystery" to a housewife in the
1950's. Sometimes women back then were in such awe of the mysteries of church, taking care of house and husband and kids and seeking life we never
had, they took Valium to sleep it away. Tell that to a factory worker who
hates his job, or some cubicle slave. Oh, and never forget the great
invisible hand -- divinity? -- of the market. |
... while most radical systems are characterized by a narrowing uniformity.| |
Radicals all must agree with the basics of conservative ideology, or be
ruthlessly stomped by the state if they do not uphold this notion of
elitism couched as "divine order." That is why conservatives hate Anarchy:
Because the radicals directly undermine the conservatives' bullshit about "divine mandates" they feel God gives them. They think God gave them their privilege to
rule others, and exploit and manipulate them. |
#3 Civilized society requires orders and classes.
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Stratification creates poverty. When times are hard, it is no longer
the entire group that suffers: The elite takes what it thinks it is 'entitled' to take, and the
underclass does without.
This is why classes exist (hence "divine
order," or more accurately an institutionalized excuse for systemic exploitation of others by the most
powerful). God is used as the
ultimate "permission giver" for the elites, excusing their plundering, enslaving, and domination of
the masses.
Beliefs like ...| |
Gays are unnatural; not in the order of nature as
God made it to be male and female, together...
Athiests are evil because
they don't see God as a king...
And anyone is evil if they don't see "family values" when a man is head of the
household and owns a little kingdom and his wife and kids are his
property serve to keep the social status quo unequal, unjust, unfair and
oppressive. |
Ancient Rome and Nazis also had this "nuclear family" model, The wife
and kids were property of male head of household. This is the same crap
the Christian Conservatives are spouting these days -- they want to go
back to home feudalism. And if feudalism is a 'normal' lifestyle at home,
then society will reflect it as "normal."
In Rome, fathers could
beat, rape, kill their uppity wives and disobedient kids because the
"right" of the 'dick-head of the household' to dominate the weaker was
couched as "divine order." It was master and slave, morality deified.
But
there is nothing divine about "divine order." The classism, elitism, and social hierarchy
that conservatives tout as the "special" "glue" or bedrock of
'civilization' means they rely on maintaining a master/slaves morality to keep their own power stable. Basically, conservatism echoes the divine
right of kings, and insists that the proper place for the "lower classes" is a life of
poverty, desperation, xenophobia, ignorance, religion, and being bound in servitude. That is their 'divine order', and this self serving ugly, evil ideology is what conservatives believe holds civilizations together.
It is the supreme insult to
humanity. All this lie does is concentrate power and keep the elites on
top of this "divine order." Slavery is a natural part of divinity for
these thuggish, entitled, well-off people. It's all part of the elites' plan, which they call "God's plan." |
#4 Property and freedom are inseparably connected.| |
Basically this says, If you own it, you can do whatever you want with it. Other
people who don't own it have no say in what you do with your
property, lest their objections interfere with owners' or plunderers'
property owners "freedom."
Beating and raping slaves, for example, is a divine right of
an owner, when human beings are seen as "property." That is part of the owners'
"freedom" and "property rights." Even today, human trafficking and certain
industries create and reinforce the idea a human being is an object that
can be used owned and sold (porn) as property of the 'owner'.
Remember it was not long ago (still is this way in some countries) when women
were seen as property of their husbands/buyers. In those days and places, husbands
had a right to beat their wives for not submitting, or for not cooking dinner on
time. The wedding band is a symbolic remnant of this marriage bondage, and
according to sociologist Stephanie Coontz, 'family' was a word that once meant a band of slaves. |
"A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable,
because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to
speak, only man’s appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you
have all rights to her."Honoré De Balzac
"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom
supported by popular opinion."Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), in a speech at the Senate hearing on woman's
suffrage, February 13, 1900
#5 Man must control his will and his appetite, knowing that he is
governed more by emotion than by reason.| |
If you are poor thou shalt not covet the wealth of parasites and kings. Thou shalt work for boss without sloth or offending him. Thou shalt not eat too much. Thou shalt not have pride and look unsightly before the king. Thou shalt not challenge the "divine order." Thou shalt not do anything that would offend the classes above you, unless the rulers above them tell you to do it.
But ... if you are of the elite class, different rules apply. Because of your status you can be taught the "inner" truths -- that there is no morality, that having ethics is a show to keep the lessers loyal to you. If you have insatiable appetites, don't incite the plebeians envy of your wealth, dress down when you walk among them, hide your decadence, pretend it isn't there and do it anyway away from the gaze of the poor lest they covet and the Bastille is stormed. Because the most elite are sociopaths, and know to be depraved behind closed doors where the "evidence" can be hidden. They will not be called into account for it. Because the ways of princes is Machiavellian and the plebeians need not meddle in the affairs of kings... |
#6 Society must alter itself slowly.| |
Because if things change too fast, the elites might not be able to
control how it comes out. They might lose their cushy place in the
"divine order" if it turns upside down.
For conservatives, there must
always be a king even if he's called a "president".
This rule does not apply in Democracies when "conservatives" control all
the levers of power. Then change must happen fast and secretly, to further
undermine democracy, lest in that vacuum of unsupervised
freedom solidarity is exploited by the lesser people. Horrors, the rulers could
lose their "divine" place in the lofty heights of plutocratic power and
be forced to live like the lower classes live if they are permitted to
live at all, and that must not happen. |
This same old eugenics shit and so called "natural" right is a scam
disguised as 'philosophy', made up by and for rich
bullies. Conservatives' ideology is all about the elites' "divine
rights" to plunder and murder others for securing their own gain and
stability at the expense of everyone else being deprived. This lie is
being applied even today.
And people are duped by it still.
Horatio Alger was one such popular lie.
The aim of controlling the internet, control of the workplace, control
of public space, control of lifestyles through religion and "family
values," and control through systemic manipulation of many other aspects of our
lives, is to keep us controlled and exploited by the powerful, every day. These
"divine orders" lead to top down social 'control, always. It all leads to the same
results: inequality and classism and master/slave dynamics. eugenics and
elitism, and concentrating power to the wealthy.
Manipulation of the masses
through religion and other media, exploitation of the 'work ethic', and
various other kinds of social
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"To be a good animal is the first requisite to success in life, and to be a Nation of good animals is the first condition of national prosperity."Herbert Spencer
Conserving the race: Natural aristocracies, eugenics, and the U.S. conservation movement| |
Excerpt: The enthusiasm for conservation among the plutocracy at the turn of the
century was more than a passing fashion; it came with a changed view of
capital concomitant with inherited wealth and a growing sense of
noblesse oblige. The descendants of the men who had mown the forests,
gutted the mountains, and slaughtered the seals grew ever more concerned
with the long-term management of their assets. |
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control/engineering we think of as 'normal',
only benefit the few top wealthy families and
their 'kind'.
And someday I would hope that the scam that is ongoing under the
label "conservative" will be shown for what it is: the ugliest lie of all time.
Maybe there will be a final revolution, one in the heart of
mankind. Maybe one day, the top will be brought down to the level ground where we all stand.
I wish for all humans to grow wise enough and courageous, honest and ethical enough to not desire a king to rule them or rule
others. I hope
someday we choose to rule ourselves, so we don't rule each other. So that
no-one is another person's subordinate, so that no-one can crown
himself and say that his own ambition and desire to rule and steal is a
divine mandate.
Race, wealth, and other status markers have been used as a
symbolic proof of a person's "divine" superiority" for a long time, and it
is a very insidious lie of inflated self-worth. It's designed to allow the privileged a way to conveniently rob others of their essential
humanity, to negate
others' inalienable human rights. And this lie exists
so the elitist can pretend he still has moral authority to "rule" by
"divine right."
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Empathy is antithetical to control, which is why control systems demand
psychopathy as the standard mode of function. It keeps hierarchy, authority and contractual obligations in a dominating position, always overriding the urge of care, compassion, and a heartfelt connection and empathy for all forms of life. That psychopathy and hared
of empathy is what is at the heart of "compassionate conservatism."
Even to this day.
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There is nothing divine about "divine order."
The classism, elitism, and social hierarchy that conservatives tout as the "special" "glue" or bedrock of 'civilization' means they rely on maintaining a master/slaves morality to keep their own power stable.
Basically, conservatism echoes the divine right of kings, and insists that the proper place for the "lower classes" is a life of poverty, desperation, xenophobia, ignorance, religion, and being bound in servitude.
That is their 'divine order', and this self serving ugly, evil ideology is what conservatives believe holds civilizations together.
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Ancient Rome and Nazis also had this "nuclear family" model.
The wife and kids were property of male head of household.
This is the same crap the Christian Conservatives are spouting these days -- they want to go back to home feudalism.
And if feudalism is a 'normal' lifestyle at home, then society will reflect it as "normal."
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Race, wealth, and other status markers have been used as a symbolic proof of a person's "divine" superiority" for a long time, and it is a very insidious lie of inflated self-worth.
It's designed to allow the privileged a way to conveniently rob others of their essential humanity, to negate others' inalienable human rights.
And this lie exists so the elitist can pretend he still has moral authority to "rule" by "divine right."
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