Word.

With credit to the Ohio composer, and not the political scientist with the same name, you may find the quote on the wrong Frank Wilhoit’s Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit

Namely:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Worth remembering this is not the poli sci professor but rather a musician with the sane name who posited this. Wonder how the professor feels about some rando nailing the definition so well.

How very western-centric…

Identify what the culture conserves, & then you can know what’s going on…

Do they conserve integrity?

Do they cnoserve objectivity?

Do they conserve exclusive-validity ( normal, on this world )?

Do they conserve exclusive-wealth?

Just because the ones that YOU focus-on conserve in a narcissistic/machiavellian way, DOESN’T mean that the word “conservative” magically only operates as your political-assumptions dictate.

( this point is on the MECHANISM of political-narcissism, not just on this particular point.

Politically-motivated people seem to relentlessly, throughout millenia, presume that NO perspective outside of THEIR context, has any validity.

Want another example?

Look up to the north hemisphere’s polestar, at solstices & equinoxen.

The shape that the Big Dipper forms, around the polestar, those 4 nights, is called, in Sanskrit, “swastika”.

Who “owns” it?

Hindu, Buddhist, Hopi, & Navaho?

According to White laws, the ONLY possessor/owner of it, is nazis.

It is ILLEGAL to have the Hindu, Buddhist, Hopi, or Navaho symbol in one’s possession, in some countries, because ONLY white-supremacists have VALIDITY in such laws:

non-whites aren’t valid, nazis are valid, therefore the swastika only means what they meant, right?

Narcissism.

The concept/principle goes much further, though:

Addiction’s “self inherently” bad, right?

Whites believe that, consistently.

Addiction-to-wisdom, addiction-to-growing-up, addiction-to-growing-underestanding, addiction-to-evolving, these AREN’T EVEN POSSIBLE ADDICTIONS, according to White culture…

Narcissism.

It isn’t the addiction-mechanism that is the problem, it iis the actual addiction-anchors, that is the problem.

It isn’t the swastika that is the problem, it is nazism that is the problem.

It isn’t conservatism that is the problem, it is ideological-supremacism that is the problem.

I wish humankind would quit gaslighting, but … that is too much to ask, isn’t it?

The most objective, universally-framed perspective is consistently more-accurate than the ideologically-convenient politically-motivated perspective, IF intellectual-integrity is something one is addicted to.

Feynman evolved, as a person, because he was conservative about integrity: he conserved that, & lt-go-of his misogynistic-past-nature.

That is admirable, worthy accomplishing.

Cosnervatism isn’t self-inherently what’s being claimed in the post’s perspective: that is ideological “truth”, not objectivity’s position. )

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