/lit/ - Literature

>>18517949
This is why atheism leads to despotism; if Shelly sees no reason to fear God, then how will other people live as neighbours to fearless Shelly? Therefore Shelly's fearful neighbours must create a totalitarian state that Shelly will fear; and if fearless Shelly does not fear this, then fearless Shelly will die fearfully.

>>17766956
You need to read the founding father of this stuff, a guy named Edmund Burke.

I would also recommend reading Ecclesiastes in the Bible. Central to Burkeanism is a common sense view that humankind is not improvable, and so High Tories typically think of liberals and progressives as Christian extremists; people who somewhere in the back of their mentality think of humanity as potentially equal to God, even though they conceptually no longer identify with their original theological worldview.

>the sublime is more beautiful than the beautiful

what did he mean by this?

Read the intellectually superior conservative.