{"id":4326,"date":"2010-07-13T04:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2010-07-13T04:36:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:36:48","slug":"the-conservative-tendency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-conservative-tendency\/","title":{"rendered":"The conservative tendency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blog which some readers may find of interest, <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetendency.blogspot.com\/\">Conservative tendency<\/a>.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetendency.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/left-left-left-right-left.html\">most recent post<\/a> is a bit of a pedantic muddle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had a friend who was raised in China in the 1970s (the daughter of a general, in fact), and she was in a deep sense a conservative, though she was not interested in Western politics. She was educated in Confucian values and classical Chinese literature by her maternal grandmother, who had been a concubine, and yet she was also deeply affected by Maoist Communist ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The point I&#8217;m making is that I know there is no simple left\/right dichotomy. I am interested in how people think and form their values, and, if I tend to identify with &#8220;one side&#8221; of politics, I am not totally sure of my position and I remain respectful towards and sometimes fascinated by those with views very different from my own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say pedantic muddle as a <i>compliment<\/i>. When it comes to political discussion it is easy enough to find plain and precise assertiveness, distilling a complex subject down to a potent pith in an unselfconscious manner. A rarer find is that of the humility to admit that the task at hand may be more than one&#8217;s tool are fit for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog which some readers may find of interest, Conservative tendency. The most recent post is a bit of a pedantic muddle: I had a friend who was raised in China in the 1970s (the daughter of a general, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-conservative-tendency\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}