Announcing the return of Culture World, a heady concoction of culture politics and history. I stopped contributing to this blog site eight months ago when I had a little accident. I take that back. It wasn't little. On the operating table my heart stopped beating, which is medically considered an unpromising symptom. However, the good nurses at Advent Health pounded on my chest for seven straight minutes and so saved my life. Anyway, I’m back now and ready to continue my blog. I hope you won't resent the nurses for this.
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A team of nurses a lot like this saved my life. I'm glad they did and so are some of my friends.
start the new year, I'm going to lay out what I consider to be the basic differences between liberalism and conservatism as these doctrines or perspectives exist in American contemporary politics. I'm not going to do any more than this right now because I'm just learning how to use speech to text on my computer. I'm able to type, but my eyesight has weakened to the point where I can't see standard size print easily. That's why I'm just going to write these two paragraphs right now. I hope my typing or speaking to text skills will improve in the near future so the wisdom of Culture World can once again be bestowed on the people of the Earth. In this spirit let me say the roots of liberalism are in reason ,justice, and compassion, while the roots of conservatism lie in tribal loyalty.
Some critics may say this distinction is biased and unfair to conservatives. Rather than just ignoring these critic or telling them to shut up, let me elaborate. Both liberals and conservatives may believe in reason, justice, and compassion. But in the case of justice, for example, conservatives are much more likely to filter their ideals through a lens, one that asks not, "Is a an action or policy fair? -- but asks instead, "Is it fair to me and my kind?"
