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"The genesis of this article was a comment that was left for me on one of my
social media posts. It was a throwaway post of mine on the Bluesky app,
cross-posted to Instagram: an observational riff at the expense of the
then-upcoming Conservative Party of Canada policy convention in Québec City on
the weekend of 9–10 September, 2023. More on the comment later.
Conservatism is by its very nature — and name — a reactionary and typically
regressive political and social ideology. It seeks to maintain the status quo
wherever possible, at least insofar as the status quo lines up with the
inherent traits and characteristics of the dominant class. It is inimical to
democratic and individual freedoms, despite the desperate insistences of those
who promote it.
Conservatism attracts like-minded ideologies like nationalism, populism,
demagoguery, and fascism as it seeks to force a wholesale societal crackdown on
progressive policies and individual autonomy, subverting the gains of broader
civil rights to the narrow views of conservatism’s most extreme and vocal
adherents. That these narrow views are almost universally seeded by religious
fundamentalism is no accident; it is an inevitability.
Canada’s prairie provinces have been, for the past 40 years, the political and
religious nexus of this relentless rejection of Liberalism (and small-l
liberalism), and this has been apparent to anyone who cared enough to look."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
