{"id":5617,"date":"2017-04-12T05:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/the-conservative-mind-3\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T05:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T05:50:58","slug":"the-conservative-mind-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/the-conservative-mind-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Innovations are presumed guilty until proven innocent.&#0160; There is a defeasible presumption in favor of traditional beliefs, usages, institutions, arrangements, techniques, and whatnot, provided they work.&#0160; By all means allow the defeat of the outworn and no-longer-workable: in with the new if the novel is better.&#0160; But the burden of proof is on the would-be innovator: if it ain&#39;t broke, don&#39;t fix it.&#0160; Conservatives are not opposed to change.&#0160; We are opposed to non-ameliorative change, and change for the sake of change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And once again, how can anyone who loves his country desire its fundamental transformation?&#0160; How can anyone love <em>anything<\/em> who desires its fundamental transformation?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You love a girl and want to marry her.&#0160; But you propose that she must first undergo a total makeover:&#0160; butt lift, tummy tuck, nose job, breast implants, psychological re-wire, complete doxastic overhaul,&#0160;<em>sensus divinitatis<\/em> tune-up, <em>Weltanschauung<\/em> change-out, memory upgrade, and so on. Do you love <em>her<\/em>, or is she merely the raw material for the implementation of your currently uninstantiated <em>idea<\/em> of what a girl should be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The extension to love of country is straightforward.&#0160; If you love your country, then you do not desire its fundamental transformation.&#0160; Contrapositively, if you do desire its fundamental transformation, then you do not love it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovations are presumed guilty until proven innocent.&#0160; There is a defeasible presumption in favor of traditional beliefs, usages, institutions, arrangements, techniques, and whatnot, provided they work.&#0160; By all means allow the defeat of the outworn and no-longer-workable: in with the new if the novel is better.&#0160; But the burden of proof is on the would-be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/the-conservative-mind-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Conservative Mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}