Greetings all! I trust the coming of another weekend finds you doing well!
Jack Carney and I will be discussing the portion of my article "What Does It Mean to Be a Conservative Pt 2" entitled Back to Basics: Eight Conservative Principles, almost certainly drawing in other portions of that material and making comparisons with other authors ranging from Edmund Burke to other Substackers (such as the fellow who publishes under the name Aurelius, and one or two others), as well as a few additional references Jack will draw upon.
I will be outlining the principles and why I've concluded that only principles of the sort, with those working premises I and others have tried to formulate are the only likely path to a society that is both just and able to remain stable on a large scale, even if imperfect (because human nature is inherently flawed, there are no Utopias).
Jack will try and make mincement out of me in our friendly conversation, reformulating his version of Voluntaryism, which I will examine critically in return. Along the way we may venture into neighboring philosophical territory such as whether God's existence is subject to proof or is our starting premise (or not), and whether the real locus of power in the modern world is the State or what I call the Global Corporatocracy (a seamless integration of state and corporate power, with help from "think tanks" and "public-private partnerships" in between).
You are invited to join what promises to be an interesting discussion (or, if it's your choice, to come in and just listen) we expect to last for approximately two hours.
Time(s): 5 pm Eastern Time in U.S. (4 pm Central Time, 3 pm Mountain Time, 2 pm Pacific Time). If you are in Chile the time will be 5 pm. If you are in New Zealand the time will be 9 am Sunday morning.
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