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1. Despite its rhetorical commitment to sustainability, the progressive left as an outgrowth of liberalism, is fundamentally at war with Nature. This war is manifested in both the human and natural worlds...
2. Just as we’ve seen the depletion of more than half of the world’s topsoil over the past 150 years, we’re witnessing the exhaustion of human culture and tradition by a rapacious economy of mass consumption... all in the name of “progress.”
3. Topsoil- a monument to death- springs forth life and renewal. While human culture and tradition- the result of thousands of years of human life- can serve as fertile ground for beauty, knowledge, and meaning.
But the receptacle must be replenished in both realms...
But the receptacle must be replenished in both realms...
4. While preoccupied with the problem, progressivism has become incapable of replenishing the natural and human worlds. This is underscored by the ideology’s obsession with power and ‘change,’ as well as its cruelty toward the past.
5. Some are perplexed by the progressive left’s embrace of iconoclasm, corporatism, technocracy, and transhumanism, but when examined through this lens, it should appear an inevitability.
6. While American conservatism has been a colossal failure, I would hope that from its wreckage, self-styled conservatives can reconcile themselves with Nature- both in the natural and human worlds- and dedicate themselves to protecting that replenishing mechanism.
7. Progressives will ultimately deplete these reservoirs, and if conservatives continue to cling to the left for direction, they will do little to stop it.
Conservatives must rededicate themselves to conserving, sustaining, and replenishing.
Conservatives must rededicate themselves to conserving, sustaining, and replenishing.
8. And maybe this requires self-styled conservatives to finally shed that distinction... to claim something older and more real.
