Charlie StrossIf your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.
We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?
Toni Aittoniemi@cstross Conservatism.
According to #wilhoitslaw, conservatism consists only of a single principle:
There should be an in-group which the law protects but does not bind, alongside an out-group which the law binds but does not protect.
There is no modernity, no enlightenment, no rule of law. It’s the old divine right of kings, unchanged by centuries.
greuh@gimulnautti @cstross … which we should call Regressism.
Conservatism would be stasis. Working deliberately towards regression (against progressism) should be labeled Regressism.
Conservatism would be stasis. Working deliberately towards regression (against progressism) should be labeled Regressism.
Wilfried Klaebe@greuh I think the term "reactionary" describes it quite well too.
@wonka @greuh @cstross What conservatism tries to conserve is the relationships of power, and hierarchies that uphold them.
Reactionary is very much related, even if more to the side of ”rolling back progress” kind of way.
Conservatives traditionally would be the ”the king’s men”. Those who’d sit on the right in post-revolutionary France’s parliamentary assemblies.
The idea is the same though: Power and hierachies for the sake of power & hierarchies.