re: #3 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

I actually was just rereading Adam Smith today and he has a section on this that is just fucking perfect:

From “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”.

I wish more ‘conservatives’ would actually read Smith.

I think alot of conservatives forget that Smith was a radical for his time. A product of the Scottish Enlightenment and wrote Wealth of Nations as a contrast to the mercantilism system that had dominated Europe before he wrote that book. I think Smith would have taken issue with unregulated capitalism and furthermore the attempts to link laissez-faire capitalism with conservative Christianity.