tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post3624697742126381696..comments2023-08-16T00:25:03.236-07:00Comments on have me pompeii your town: follow upChris Almondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13107791774450498377noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post-81078157606074024622010-10-26T00:59:33.457-07:002010-10-26T00:59:33.457-07:00I'm speaking of conservatism and liberalism in...I'm speaking of conservatism and liberalism in the broadest sense. Conservatism as wanting to conserve tradition and liberalism, in the american sense of being progressive.Chris Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107791774450498377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post-88535267109786287872010-10-26T00:25:03.905-07:002010-10-26T00:25:03.905-07:00I assume that when you speak of conservatism and l...I assume that when you speak of conservatism and liberalism, you refer to the narrow context of politics and culture in US.<br /><br />Whereas the questions you are opening up are much bigger, at any rate to my mind: what mind of strategy is best for survival and flourishing?<br /><br />Taking the abstract idea of "conservative" away from a particular context, it's to do with maintaining or restoring a status quo. So it really depends on what status quo one is thinking of, and whether one considers it desirable or not.<br /><br />Me, I'm a deep-dyed conservative. I vote for the Conservative party here. When I think of a model for the future, I always look nostalgically to the past. But that doesn't embrace everything that happened in the past, all the social conditions etc. There's an aspect of selectivity, and rose-coloured spectacles.<br /><br />But I couldn't be a conservative in America. I couldn't be a liberal either. Both attitudes would be alien. I don't see Cuba of the last 50 years as a disaster. I haven't lived there, but at a great distance I see some admirable features: a free health service, like the one we have here, and a light ecological footprint.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com