There was also a serious debate about natural change processes, which is a bit like the amathiacs who think the current human induced climate change is just a slightly bigger natural variation in carbon dioxide levels, only more reasonable. That debate also covered things like using what is now described “indigenous / cold” burn offs to control the risk of too much vegetation leading to an uncontrolled fire (what I would describe as the balanced position) vs. never burn off at all (the unmitigated "preservationist") vs. hot fire burn offs (as advocated by authority, but not supported by adequate resources and rather missing the point).
These thoughts came to mind as I considered the rabid reactions of the uber-conservatives to measures designed to keep LGBTI kids alive in schools, and I realised they are, as with John Howard’s white picket fence mentality, the political equivalent of the stereotypical environmental preservationist: they don’t want ANY CHANGE AT ALL past their mythical Golden Age of the 1950s (where, a bit like people with their head in the sand and the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy’s “Ravenous Bugblatter Beast”, they think that, because they didn’t see it, things like domestic violence and “homosexuality” didn’t exist ... whereas that enforced invisibility was itself actually part of the problem), whereas conservatives are resistant to change, but have supported good change - as an example, the decriminalisation of male homosexuality was done by the - misnamed - Liberal Party, who are our conservative party. They - the conservatives - have even advocated for change that, whilst I consider it often harmful or favouring the elites, is still change.
So ... I will now start to refer to the current batch of political reactionaries as what they are: preservationists, not conservatives.
[1] BPM =
Balanced Positive (spiritually) Mature. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here, here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
[2] Please see here, here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is
no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted
changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately
after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.
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Tags: conservatism, politics, preservationist, reactionary, society,
First published: Fryrsdagr, 3rd June, 2016
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's
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