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The Ghost of a Flea1/21/2022 6:44:46 pm PST

re: #172 Charles Johnson

At this point I think the thing that needs to be shouted about is that…it isn’t hypocrisy because they believe in hierarchy more than they believe any value is universal. They have rejected the core assumption of the Enlightenment in favor of caste.

They’re axiomatically the superior kind, and thus cannot be constrained, even by their own beliefs.

Indeed, the modern conservative is defined by the mutilation of their own immovable anchors. They have invented a new hermeneutic, a new history, a new epistemology, etc, etc, rather than be constrained by the principles they point to as their sources of moral authority.