From a humanistic point of view, conservatism is no less, denial the perfectibility of man and all his creations, including institutions.
I will not mention in this column the ridiculous to want to save "lives," scientific and philosophical under discussion, ie "embryos", at the sacrifice of women at risk physical and psychological: what kind of mental eunuch could require a woman whose life is in danger from an ectopic pregnancy, or whose pregnancy is the result of outrage your body, to be played?
not talk about the outburst which means to discuss whether the family make a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man, a woman and two men, two women and a man, three men and a baby-like in the movie, or any of the above, plus a pet: who matters in which consists the family while protecting the assets equal before the law for gay couples?
disertaré Far from the mess that is to ignore more than two decades of studies, from the perspective of public policy evaluation, which demonstrates the complete failure of the misnamed "war drugs "and its prohibition: does anyone really care if the" mata mata ", when the policy to" fight "each other every year kills thousands of people and squanders billions of dollars that could be invested in health and education, this indeed useful to reduce the consumption of more harmful drugs?
All these are truisms, things that anyone with a moderate use of their power of reason could understand.
I will not discuss here any of the absurd modern effects of conservative ideology because those who do read and think to take rational positions compared to the problems posed by life in society, and we are tired of dealing with individuals who advocate extreme injustice, not even hear the strongest arguments to test their prejudices, people who all want to "preserve" it as absurd.
get anyone to take seriously a conservative politician in Colombia? "To" conserve "what? In Sweden and Denmark would be debatable, but here in the jungle tecermundista, reformers need men to get us out of backwardness rather than "conservative."
The conservative attack on the last days of his youngest head and embarrassing leader, premature political fossil by the name of Andrés Felipe Arias, who instead of questioning of the President's (what right?) should be devoted to the defense in legal trouble which earned him his vocation by practicing charity towards the needy landowners , warrants an examination of the philosophical conservatives. Arias, as I say, is a charitable man and should, also for charity, like other conservatives of the world, finally retiring from politics to safeguard their party's ideological coherence.
Hugh Cecil Define Conservatism as the "tendency of the human mind, adverse changes and removals, due in part to fear of the unknown and trust in the ways of the experience rather than theoretical reasoning, and partly also to the human ability adaptation to the environment, by virtue of which we accept or condone what we are used much more easily than what is foreign to us. " It should be noted that Cecil was a conservative British parliamentarian.
then is a world view marked by the antithesis and repulsion for change: denial, opposition, destructive parasitic on what critics and therefore unable to formulate their own. Hence its counter-revolutionary, reactionary, that is, "reaction", the first reaction against the liberal democratic thought and its historical expression par excellence, the French Revolution (Burke, Disraeli, Bagehot and other apostles of immobility is illustrated very well) then against any modification of the social order.
I focus here on the structural defect that vitiates any ideology or "conservative politics" if I authorized the oxymoron. Discover José Ingenieros in "The poor man," one of its most pure in the conservative spirit, which would find social justification for the fact that ¨ the eternal contrast of forces are pushing in human societies, is reflected in the struggle between two attitudes, which agitate the public mind: the conservatism or routine and the original spirit or rebellion. "
would also be a necessary evil for the flowering of creative thinking, which is reserved for men who matter in Historically, apart from being a social wall of containment against the most destructive subjects: "The continuity of social life would be without this compact mass of men purely imitative, able to keep the daily routine that society through education transfused ? The poor did not invent anything, do not believe, do not push, do not break, does not breed, but, however, jealously guards the automation framework, prejudices and dogmas accumulated over centuries, arguing that common stock against the pitfalls of the misfits. His grudge against the developers compensated for their resistance to the destroyers. "
some are wondering how important is that men like Churchill, for example, were conservative. The answer is easy: because they were not partisan but or because, as he wrote Gómez Dávila (another conservative worthy of remembrance), " the historic significance of a man seldom agrees with his inner nature. History is full of fools victorious. " In general, more intelligent conservatives tend to be very good deciphering the world, but not transforming. Observed, sometimes sharply, but do not act.
hit Engineers in description of conservatism but not its social justification. Nothing can justify complacency and lack of innovative ideas. For the "destroyers" are not neutralized with more destruction, but with creativity. Conservatism is really bad to dry, a crippling atavism of the most primitive human fear of the unknown, an obstacle to progress. In political terms, nothing good has brought conservatism to Colombia and could bring you to any country or its citizens or its institutions, for the powerful reason that it cancels itself.
From the point of view humanistic conservatism is nothing less than denial of the perfectibility of man and all his creations, including institutions. Therefore, before any reform process and seeking solutions to any problem from the political, to be consistent with himself the curator must, inevitably, remain silent. If everything must be kept as it is because nothing could be better, any chance of advancement is abolished.
Without doubt, any stupid ideology ends up committing suicide.
So I call on policy consistency and ideological conservatives by Colombia. I ask in the most cordial on, when you have to reflect and find solutions to the country's most pressing problems, shut up and save time for those with initiative. Despite his silence, you will know exactly what it is that "propose" to preserve the despicable state of affairs prevailing.
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