{"id":821,"date":"2008-12-13T18:38:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T02:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-12-13T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T02:38:57","slug":"the-arational-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-arational-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"The arational conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/culture11.com\/article\/34013?page_view=1\">Yale Brought Me to Conservatism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can only describe the moment as an epiphany, with all that that implies. \u201cAn age of prudence\u201d was my own age of rationalism. There was no reason to exist. But I did: not because I could prove it, or because I knew, but because in that utterly human moment of terror and sacrifice that gave meaning, I recognized that it didn\u2019t matter. I didn\u2019t need a good reason to love. But I did.<\/p>\n<p>I have said very little so far about my politics. The entire edifice of my beliefs had rested on that rationalist Weltanschauung. I had been liberal in the classical sense: I had considered Man as an atomized, self-complete individual, engaged with the world through choice and rational thought. When the framework for that conceptual system fell apart, so too did its results. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Enlightenment was greatness.  Two centuries after its denouement it is in fact <i>conservative<\/i> to defend it.  Rational physical systems pervade our lives.  But the power of the Enlightenment conceit, rationality&#8217;s moment of hubris, stopped at the limits of society and psychology.  The sciences of society are still primitive affairs, and one could argue that psychology is still a science in its infancy if powers of prediction are any judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale Brought Me to Conservatism: I can only describe the moment as an epiphany, with all that that implies. \u201cAn age of prudence\u201d was my own age of rationalism. There was no reason to exist. But I did: not because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-arational-conservative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,90],"tags":[114,115,116,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}