{"id":35230,"date":"2018-06-19T06:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35230"},"modified":"2018-06-19T06:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:31:10","slug":"conservativism-now-market-economies-and-the-liberal-anti-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35230","title":{"rendered":"Conservativism Now? \u00a0Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-image\">\n<div class=\"fimg-wrapper fimg-cl\">\n<div class=\"featured-image\">\n<div class=\"fimg-inner\">\n<div class=\"vm-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vm-middle\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2018-06-19\/conservativism-now-market-economies-and-the-liberal-anti-culture\/\">Conservativism Now? \u00a0Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"backstretch\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cottonopolis1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"post-content\">The persistent purpose of my writing over the past decade has been to reflect in a hopefully complex manner on the sort of culture necessary to \u201csolve\u201d the climate and ecological crisis and create a truly sustainable way of life.<\/p>\n<p>One of my main themes has been that neither liberalism (nor Liberalism<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2018-06-19\/conservativism-now-market-economies-and-the-liberal-anti-culture\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> ) is suited to that task, in large part because it is fundamentally <em>growthist<\/em>, requiring for social stability the \u201csimple requirement,\u201d as Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it, of \u201cthe enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living.\u201d \u00a0As David Fleming wrote, \u201cstarting some three centuries ago, the market economy has, with growing confidence, been the source and framework for a loose and easy-going but effective civil society and social order\u201d (85).\u00a0 Expansion, growth, and the promise of limitless possibility are the foundation of the \u201ceffectiveness\u201d mentioned by Fleming.\u00a0 Growth is the social glue that has held liberal industrial societies together, which is one of several connected reasons why we won\u2019t address our relationship to our natural ecology by becoming \u201cmore liberal\u201d or \u201cmore progressive.\u201d Sustainability, then, is neither liberal nor progressive.<\/p>\n<p>But, one might ask, why so persistent a critique of our liberal friends?\u00a0 After all, they (we) seem the most inclined to pay attention to the environment, and to show care and concern for our connection to nature.\u00a0 One might imagine a story about a contradiction in progressive attitudes, torn between concern and empathy, on the one hand, and growth and prosperity on the other, happily resolved as the empathetic side prevails in the face of growing awareness of the collateral damage of growth and prosperity.\u00a0 Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservativism Now? \u00a0Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture The persistent purpose of my writing over the past decade has been to reflect in a hopefully complex manner on the sort of culture necessary to \u201csolve\u201d the climate and ecological crisis and create a truly sustainable way of life. 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