True, progressivism does seem an entity. Although, that’s what the progressives say about the white men. And that’s what the nazis say about the jews. Men say it about the feminists.
The Jews are an entity.
The Nazis are an entity.
The white men are an entity.
The progressives are an entity.
So ideologies are personified into entities and there is probably some evolutionary advantage for doing that since it’s better to assume the rustling leaves is a lion stalking us rather than just the wind.
Nazism was a return to traditional values in a modern economic, scientific and technological context, where as progressivism, as the name implies, was new.
However, I suspect there have always been progressive currents and undercurrents in culture. Christianity was progressive in some respects before it was politicized by Rome.
Well, progressivism is a natural consequence of prosperity because when the desperate struggle for food and shelter is behind us, we can focus on other sources of pain and truth. So when life becomes too easy, people find new ways to complain: before, it was starving in the street, but now it’s having hurt feelings that’s the big deal.
Progressivism is as old as prosperity and generally precedes the fall of empires. Check out feminism and the fall of rome heartiste.wordpress.com/2010/12 … l-of-rome/ Look into the Weimar Republic (discounting WWI effects) and see the condition that enabled the rise of Hitler. Or just accept it as sensible if you need no convincing since strong values build strong societies which engender prosperity which causes people to question the continuing need for those strong values and that precedes the erosion of prosperity until it falls apart and someone rises from the debris once again with strong values to restart the cycle.
Progressivism came long after conservatism, and after the capitalist, liberal, socialist and fascist revolutions of the early modern and modern epochs.
economically it originally allied itself more with socialism than capitalism, but today it’s less concerned with economics, and if anything has allied itself more with capitalism than socialism.
Yes, I see what you mean. If they can’t control the gov, then fine, they’ll control private industry and that’s even better because who can question Dick’s right to choose not to sell the AR15? Hey, private industry can do what it wants and not only are the conservatives forced to support their own disarming despite the cognitive dissonance of on one hand supporting freedom of their disarmers and on the other desiring to own guns, but they couldn’t do anything about it anyway since since private industry isn’t put up to a vote. Try arguing with a capitalist about declaring google a public utility and suddenly the “deplorables” are totally defending their enemy; it’s hilarious!
Btw, did you see: UC Berkeley: Saying “I’m Not Racist” Is Racist
academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/events … _11_12.pdf
Wth? How can anyone not be afraid to talk???