Sunday, January 27, 2013
The error of Straussian neoconservatism
Contrary
to Burke, Leo Strauss seems to have rated classical natural
rights over traditionalism (classical conservatism). But
when we see through the fog of abstract Platonic ideas, we see that natural rights grounded in natural law actually leads to volkish traditions, which allowed
humans to survive and reproduce more successfully than other forms of
social behavior.
What
we have to worry about is not local conservative traditions but
imperialistic states, or coercive, one-race hyper-behavior,
which runs counter to the independent variety of groups and small
states that natural law and evolution prefer. This invalidates the
marauding by neoconservatives over local traditions all over the world.
Elites do naturally rise but they are local elites, hopefully not
Plato's totalitarian Guardians, or the modern Straussian version of this, which William Kristol and his friends seem to think they are.
I
also believe that natural law affirms the instinctive Spirit-Will
that activates life, which is then shaped by evolution---this means
that our evolution toward Godhood is in harmony with natural law, but
that is another topic.
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