Early Access: The Origins of Conservatism

Thanks for your labor and your thinking and the way you express your current conclusions and ideas.

Supererogatory = moral extra credit

Wow. Yup- I see it now. I think I've watched that portion of the video 5 or 6 times now. Seventh time's the charm, I guess.

Ian Danskin

Bottom right. It says L-R: Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, The Marquess of Halifax, Richard Hooker, David Hume.

Supererogatory = moral extra credit

It certainly would be redundant to put them in twice, but I'm not seeing them, still, and I watched the video 3 times before commenting. The nameplates you show before going into the showtune are Jevons, Menger, and Walras, and that's at ~4:27. At 4:15 it is indeed Leibniz and Hume and the possible Gassendi, along with Burke and 1 other I don't recognize but I see nary a nameplate- unless you've already added them on a different version of the video?

Ian Danskin

No, this is a fair point. I've rephrased it to "a left wing and a right wing." Thanks!

Ian Danskin

Hm. It's the same faces I show at 4:15, where I *do* use name plates. Do you think it needs them twice? Feels redundant to me...

Supererogatory = moral extra credit

I laughed out loud at Jordan Peterson. Also, at around 5:30 you mention the foundations of conservative thought and show three philosophers you don't mention by name- I recognized Leibniz and Hume, but who is the third unnamed philosopher you show? Is it Gassendi? I might suggest name plates.

Ian Danskin

Upon investigation, I am, in fact, using that term incorrectly. Good catch!

Awesome video! At 9:11 you say "their reactionary, accelerationist base". I know of accelerationism in a marxian context, how is it meant here?

a wingless monkey

I remember this twitter thread. The video is really good.

Well I'm definitely ordering Neoreaction a Basilisk. Excellent video :) looking forward to enthusiastically sharing it with people.

Brian Stodola

typical of internet commenters, I didn't watch to the end.

Ian Danskin

um... I mention Robin by name twice in the video...

Brian Stodola

You should check out Corey Robin's work on this subject, it's definitely in the same line of thinking.

That was really informative and your research is very impressive! One thing I'd like to add: At 9:20 you say that "Most democracies have a liberal wing and a conservative one [...]" and although I do not have any studies about this at hand, I would say, that in many democracies (for example in Europe and South America) it's generally more a confrontation between a conservative wing and a leftist, usually social democratic wing, which I would not subsume under "liberal". Maybe that point of view ist too euro-centric or too pedantic in this instance, so feel free to disagree with me.

Louis Brooks

outstanding work! i am pulling a ton of research and notes to help out a friend who is starting to listen to Candace Owens a lot . Hopefully I can pull her from the brink of the abyss, with these videos and the research links. Thanks again!

Manfredi

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