"Conservatism, at its best, has been a study of knowledge rooted in continuity: facts, precedent, and principle over mood or subjective feelings. Once it abandons that, it becomes merely another tribe of the self-indulgent"
"In a recent broadcast, Tucker Carlson offered a stark pronouncement, a criticism of Trump’s treatment of Iran: “If there’s one consistent lesson of history, it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter. Everyone can feel that.”
"The statement was presented as an intuitive truth, a visceral certainty available to anyone willing to “feel it.” This move, elevating affective resonance above evidentiary warrant, marks a subtle but profound shift in conservative discourse. It represents a philosophical rupture, one that echoes Francis Schaeffer’s diagnosis of modernity’s descent below what he called the “line of despair.” Tucker’s edict offers true conservatives an object lesson in recognizing and avoiding woke conservatives.
"Schaeffer, in Escape from Reason (1968), traced the Western intellectual trajectory from rational theism through Enlightenment rationalism to existential despair. At each stage, he argued, the prior foundation gives way: reason yields to romanticism, romanticism to relativism, relativism to nihilism. Once this progression crosses the line of despair, truth ceases to be objective and becomes self-authenticating, affirmed not by correspondence to reality, but by internal coherence, emotional intensity, or subjective belief. The result is a system of reasoning where the thinker’s feelings or convictions warrant their own truth, rendering ideas beyond meaningful contestation.
"The result is a closed loop: one no longer reasons from what is, but instead reasons from what feels inevitable." . . . More
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