Comment by marcosdumay
1 year ago
Conservative people just can't create technology. Technology is always progressive.
It can be progressive towards any amount of things, good or bad. But conservatism requires not developing it.
1 year ago
Conservative people just can't create technology. Technology is always progressive.
It can be progressive towards any amount of things, good or bad. But conservatism requires not developing it.
I think this is conflating conservatism as a political position and conservatism as an anti-development position. Conservatism as a political position has very little to do with actual developmental changes and way more to do with retaining existing political hierarchies. If a new tool came into existence to enforce a existing caste systems (race, class, whatever) then political conservatism would be for this tool.
Consider reading Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills as a great display of this difference in the context of reproductive rights[0].
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/
> I think this is conflating conservatism as a political position and conservatism as an anti-development position.
In absolutely no place in either comment I mentioned political movements, parties, or anything like that.
Your own introduction of the term was alongside feudalism, which most would say is "something like" a political movement
Well yes, the term conservatism is ambiguous as it means different things in different contexts. I'm suggesting you're conflating this.