Yeats
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I do not for a moment believe that time travel is a present-day reality. Nor do I believe that it will become so anytime soon.
Even so, let us say that some kind of scientific miracle has indeed taken place, and that we do have access to a means of traveling back or forward in time. What kind of a person, politically speaking, would be better able to do so?
The past first. Who would be better able to cope with existing in a previous era, the conservative or the leftist? Obviously the conservative, for the following reasons.
First, the conservative generally has a better grasp of historical fact than the leftist. For proof of this, one need only read Mr. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Although Mr. Zinn's book may well describe past events as they occurred in an alternate reality, he actually asserts that such things happened in our own past. This kind of historical revisionism is prevalent among the left. If one does not learn the lessons of the past... well... I'm sure many of you are already acquainted with Santayana, so I won't bother.
Add to this the crazed animosity shown by the left towards historical artifacts or statues. One cannot very well be a student of history while at the same time acting as a destroyer of it.
Secondly, and I think more importantly, the conservative is generally more of a self-reliant individual than the leftist. Most people have historically been the same. Those who were not tended not to survive. The leftist, dropped into an era where there were no government programs to assist him, would be at a loss as to how to carry on.
And what of the future? As always, our future depends upon the choices we make in the present.
If the future is a conservative one, then obviously the conservative would be equipped to handle it much better than the leftist, who would no doubt be driven mad by the course that history had taken. No death penalty for hate speech? No voting rights for animals? How awful!
No, I don't think the leftist would be able to cope with a conservative future.
What about a leftist future then? Surely the leftist would have the advantage there, would he not?
I do not believe he would. Neither would the conservative. You see, one cannot cope with a future when there is no future.
Even so, let us say that some kind of scientific miracle has indeed taken place, and that we do have access to a means of traveling back or forward in time. What kind of a person, politically speaking, would be better able to do so?
The past first. Who would be better able to cope with existing in a previous era, the conservative or the leftist? Obviously the conservative, for the following reasons.
First, the conservative generally has a better grasp of historical fact than the leftist. For proof of this, one need only read Mr. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Although Mr. Zinn's book may well describe past events as they occurred in an alternate reality, he actually asserts that such things happened in our own past. This kind of historical revisionism is prevalent among the left. If one does not learn the lessons of the past... well... I'm sure many of you are already acquainted with Santayana, so I won't bother.
Add to this the crazed animosity shown by the left towards historical artifacts or statues. One cannot very well be a student of history while at the same time acting as a destroyer of it.
Secondly, and I think more importantly, the conservative is generally more of a self-reliant individual than the leftist. Most people have historically been the same. Those who were not tended not to survive. The leftist, dropped into an era where there were no government programs to assist him, would be at a loss as to how to carry on.
And what of the future? As always, our future depends upon the choices we make in the present.
If the future is a conservative one, then obviously the conservative would be equipped to handle it much better than the leftist, who would no doubt be driven mad by the course that history had taken. No death penalty for hate speech? No voting rights for animals? How awful!
No, I don't think the leftist would be able to cope with a conservative future.
What about a leftist future then? Surely the leftist would have the advantage there, would he not?
I do not believe he would. Neither would the conservative. You see, one cannot cope with a future when there is no future.