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Re: Conservative intuition: ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity
Simply, Some prefer the familiar. The stability of a social order that can be counted on to be the same today as it was yesterday. In a world that is constantly changing though its own internal momentum this can be disconcerting , seen from this point of view it appears as chaos that must be controlled at all cost.
Others prefer the, What is possible…. instability is not seen as an end but a precursor to a higher order that is not predictable and controllable but inherently creative.
Forgive me for being redundant with this quote. I think it makes a point at the end. The line “Now put the foundations under them” ?
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau
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I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered. - Sir Isaac Newton
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