The Conservative Mind

[Anonymous No.15922057]

What does /lit/ think about this book?

I’ll summarize the ideas briefly:

>A conservative is guided by a moralistic higher power. God exists and influences everything we do.

>A conservative does not believe in the call of the French Revolution.

>Equality is the death of progress.

>A civilized society only exists when a natural aristocracy steps up and leads the masses.

>A conservative isn’t a Democrat, as equal voting power misrepresents what’s really good for society.

>Property is power, and needs to be adequately represented in modern government.

>Abstract concepts and numbers are unable to adequately describe the human condition.

>A conservative wants to change society, but only gradually and not as a result of hasty decisions.

Thoughts? If you have any questions let me know.

[Anonymous No.15922094]

tl;dr a Conservative is someone who believes Good exists, and Good is independent of pleasure.

[Anonymous No.15922102]

>>15922057
sounds really boring

[Anonymous No.15922116]

>The Conservative-
Stopped reading there. It's shit.

[Anonymous No.15922171]

>>15922116
>a few random works by marx
>nietzsche for some reason?
>whitehead for some reason?
>a few random books that demonstrate why marxism is horeshit, demonstrating that the author has never actually read any of the books on the chart
>literal cuck porn
god even your literature recommendations take too fucking long

[Anonymous No.15923168]

>>15922057
Is George F. Will worth reading?

[Anonymous No.15923180]

>>15922116
How much have you read of this, retarded faggot?

[Anonymous No.15923187]

>>15922057
Imagine thinking democracy has ever actually existed in the US or the West. "Democracy" is just a fancy word for plutocracy. Kirk's "natural aristocracy" (aka the owners of capital) are still running things as always. He need not worry.

[Anonymous No.15923191]

>>15923180
You don't have to read a book to know it's right, you stupid chud.

[Anonymous No.15923214]

>>15922057
a good book to read if you already agree with the premises and want to be flattered. You are better off reading The Reactionary Mind or The Conservative Intellectual Movement in the United States by Nash for intellectual history and the Perlstein books for political history

[Anonymous No.15923563]

I recently read The Conservative Movement by Paul Gottfried and enjoyed it quite a bit. It puts Kirk in historical context too.

[Anonymous No.15923592]

>>15922057
>A conservative is guided by a moralistic
Which conservative has ever been guided by morals rather than self-interest or a reactionary mindset in defence of power?

[Anonymous No.15923612]

>>15923592
Kant

[Anonymous No.15923632]

>>15923612
I didn't know Kant was a politician.

[Anonymous No.15923663]

>>15923632
Cope

[Anonymous No.15923672]

>>15923592
Every politician is guided by self-interest. As are you and I.

[Anonymous No.15923760]

>>15923672
1. Dodging the question.
2. There have been politicians who sacrified themselves for a greater good. Look at Nelson Mandela for instance.

[Anonymous No.15923815]

>>15922116
I don’t think the person who made this chart has read any of those books

[Anonymous No.15923825]

>>15922057
Do you really need a manual on how to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.15923826]

>>15923760
>nelson mandela

[Anonymous No.15923871]

>>15923191
You really need to have sex

[Anonymous No.15923949]

>>15922057
Christianity is a totalizing religion, so any political philosophy that takes it seriously will either stop doing so, or become dominated by theology. Based on your summary, conversativism is in this unstable equilibrium, and a small minority to boot. Mainstream US righties are secularized cultural Christians enthralled to capital.

[Anonymous No.15924064]

>>15923168
No. He's just a newspaper op-ed guy. TCM and The Roots of American Order by Kirk are serious and seminal works

[Anonymous No.15924192]

>>15923826
He spent decades in prison declining deal after deal that would have led to his release. How did he not sacrifice himself?

[Anonymous No.15924243]

>>15923612
Kant was a liberal

[Anonymous No.15924436]

>>15924192
Adolf Hitler and many underlings, George Lincoln Rockwell, Enoch Powell, Oswald Mosley, Robert E. Lee, William Pierce, Joseph McCarthy, King Charles the Martyr are all conservative or reactionary men who sacrificed much, in some cases their lives, in the name of their beliefs.

In a healthy society, we would make idols of our own martyrs, not based tirefire black man, though to be fair, not necessarily any of the men I mentioned either.

[Anonymous No.15924442]

>>15924436
Oops
Meant to reply to: >>15923592

[Anonymous No.15924650]

>>15923168
George Will is a liberal, so no.

[Anonymous No.15924669]

>>15923563
I love Gottfried. I have to pick that one up when I have the chance.

[Anonymous No.15924675]

>>15923592
you must be 18 years or older to post here

[Anonymous No.15926561]

>>15923592

[Anonymous No.15926587]

honestly, a very poor case for conservatism, and i am a sympathetic reader.
better to just read directly from the works of those surveyed.

[Anonymous No.15926618]

>>15926561
you rescued this from the last page just to post a stupid cartoon? please fuck off yourself

[Anonymous No.15926651]

>>15926618
>he thinks it is ethically incorrect to save an alright thread from the last page while ridiculing a cro magnon retard

[Anonymous No.15926709]

>>15924192
going to prison because you and your wife quite literally linched a group of people of the opposite race is not sacrifice, atleast not self-sacrifice. Read more books. South Africa became shit once the shitskins got a hold of it.