By Nova Sky
Conservatism is a mechanism for using toxic sentimentality to sell the public tyranny. This swindle ultimately relies on an unspoken belief among conservatives, namely, the notion that certain cherished historical happenings are inevitable, unavoidable, ethically superior, or even of ‘divine’ origin.
All too often, conservatives–and those who commiserate with them–grant totally unearned sympathy to all that is cruel, small-minded, stupid, and destructive, merely because such degeneracy is supposedly based upon one or another ‘tradition.’
For those who adhere to this pathological nostalgia, the fact that something has happened can–and often does–mean that it ‘should’ have happened.
For them, the widespread adoption of a particular doctrine or practice, the one they like, all but proves that there is or was something to it. (Never mind all the other diametrically opposing views that came to prominence in various other times and places!)
This ludicrous belief system is the product of weakness, plain and simple! Those who cling to it lack the psychological gumption needed to ground their sense of self in anything higher or more noble than blind commitment to a gray world of brute, backwards-looking, futureless determinism where the highest ‘ideal’ is to make your life a blank page upon which a sterile carbon copy of the past can be readily imposed.
I propose the negation of this absurd self-negation! Conservatives hold that whatever did happen, in some sense, ‘had to happen’ (when said happening just so happened to have been involved in shaping their own identity).
I say that we assert a Divine Fatalism with respect to our innermost dreams and desires, a Fatalism of creativity! We Free, Free Spirits are predestined to vanquish all rigid, contrived patterns. The past belongs to the dead, the future to us! Let the dead bury the dead.
