Good words. Only place I felt like adding to/you seemed to pose a question:
> But let me ask you, are these past-minded people, equipped with this youthful energy, are they powerless, or are you powerless?
No. 99% of the right are not capable of this synthesis of future-focused-yet-past-respecting. Nor are ~97% of the left. Perhaps these numbers include a decimal (99.9 and 99.7) either way, it is only a small number who can.
But this piece is for that tiny percent who can but are simply unaware it is an option. Or perhaps are already doing it and just need help clarifying and articulating it. Most NRx readers probably fit somewhere in this.
And also is just kind of an examination in a pseudo dialectical-materialist sense of how our society is a balance of these forces of these two dominant temperamental “classes”—one whose naive idealized utopia is in the future and one whose naive idealized was in the past. and the tug of war between both creating a kind of nash equilibrium which is the basis on which our modern/late modern human metaorganism (society) continues its existence.
I’d be interested in a follow-up to this article.
The right doesn’t always lose
Good words. Only place I felt like adding to/you seemed to pose a question:
> But let me ask you, are these past-minded people, equipped with this youthful energy, are they powerless, or are you powerless?
No. 99% of the right are not capable of this synthesis of future-focused-yet-past-respecting. Nor are ~97% of the left. Perhaps these numbers include a decimal (99.9 and 99.7) either way, it is only a small number who can.
But this piece is for that tiny percent who can but are simply unaware it is an option. Or perhaps are already doing it and just need help clarifying and articulating it. Most NRx readers probably fit somewhere in this.
And also is just kind of an examination in a pseudo dialectical-materialist sense of how our society is a balance of these forces of these two dominant temperamental “classes”—one whose naive idealized utopia is in the future and one whose naive idealized was in the past. and the tug of war between both creating a kind of nash equilibrium which is the basis on which our modern/late modern human metaorganism (society) continues its existence.