Monday, August 9, 2010

Genealogy of Conservatism

Conservatism is the immediate result of the unrecognizability of difference. Any social circumstances which simultaneously presupposes and perpetuates  the "ideology," or "discourse," of similitude or sameness, inevitably posits an "exemplar" of sameness as universal. This universality of sameness then, serves to barricade the accessibility to, and acceptability of, difference. Thus, conservatism also, both, fortifies itself against its own genealogy, as well as the accessibility to the ontological reality of pluralities. This is why conservatism insists alterity be rectified and sublimated into the ideological modality of similitude. And with this structure emerging particularly under the presumption of universality, all provocations and convictions toward the rectification of difference is transfered into coercive fascimilation.

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