Conservatism is authoritarianism

Post #437,734 by pwhysall 12/14/20 2:44:10 AM 12/14/20 2:44:10 AM Reply	Conservatism is authoritarianism The subset of human activities to which they do not wish to apply overweening state control are constrained to certain classes of economic activity, primarily those engaged in by the wealthy. Everything else is rules, rules, rules. Can't say this or that. Must obey the state god. Must not put this in your body. Cannot take that out of your body. Prison sentences are long, prison regimes are punitive. Death is a valid sentence. Police and the armed forces are to be worshipped.
Post #437,735 by drook 12/14/20 10:05:52 AM 12/14/20 10:05:52 AM Reply	A theory doesn't have to be true to be useful If it predicts behavior better than other theories, might as well go with it. "The Republican party is based on racism, misogyny, and redistributing wealth upward." Oh no, I don't support those ideals! No, you just favor policies that support those ideals. Works out the same. -- Drew
Post #437,745 by Ashton 12/14/20 3:13:31 PM 12/14/20 3:13:31 PM Reply	Given the proven ~40% functionally illiterate: That's a Wrap! :-/ Four out of every [statistical-] 10: remain, wallow-in, staying iggerant-for Liff. Words fail (in the rest of 'us'). It's. All. become. surreal. Whilst: nobody has an answer for my Test-query: "What is a stronger word than ludicrous?" Rudderless in ~~beautiful-downtown-Burbank~~* Kenwood :-} A memorable quip from yesteryear: Laugh-In--a TV-show I've missed sorely ever since. Gotta google to see if some wry clips are extant, under 'TV HOOTS of yore'.
Post #437,751 by rcareaga 12/14/20 4:08:05 PM 12/14/20 5:52:01 PM Reply	Frank Wilhoit in 2018 He secured a kind of immortality with this observation in a comment thread at the “Crooked Timber” blog: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. cordially, Edited by rcareaga Dec. 14, 2020, 05:52:01 PM EST Expand All History
Post #437,753 by pwhysall 12/14/20 4:16:48 PM 12/14/20 4:16:48 PM Reply	's what I sed, innit? But yeah. I just had a tad more detail.
Post #437,756 by drook 12/14/20 6:15:39 PM 12/14/20 6:15:39 PM Reply	He had a tad more detail in the comment, Rand just quoted the quotable part -- Drew
Post #437,767 by pwhysall 12/15/20 2:20:46 AM 12/15/20 2:20:46 AM Reply	I keed, I keed.
Post #437,755 by drook 12/14/20 6:14:18 PM 12/14/20 6:14:18 PM Reply	Is "Wilhoit's Law" on Wikipedia yet? Well, I just submitted the draft page. We'll see. -- Drew
Post #437,760 by Ashton 12/14/20 8:19:22 PM 12/14/20 8:19:22 PM Reply	Not Wiki yet but Google gets a variety of other sites: this pithiest-yet ∑ gots Legs already. Good Show! drook
Post #437,761 by Another Scott 12/14/20 9:32:14 PM 12/14/20 9:32:14 PM Reply	DeLong has a pointer to the full comment. It's just as good. https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288 Wilhoit occasionally comments on DeLong's blog and Balloon-Juice as well. He's a sharp cookie. Cheers, Scott.
Post #437,764 by drook 12/14/20 11:55:22 PM 12/14/20 11:55:50 PM Reply	Was a professor of political science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit -- Drew Edited by drook Dec. 14, 2020, 11:55:50 PM EST Expand All History
Post #437,765 by Another Scott 12/15/20 12:32:50 AM 12/15/20 12:32:50 AM Reply	Back from the dead? Son? Some other relation? No relation? This one is a "contemporary classical" musician, among other things. https://www.broadheath.com/ :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #437,766 by drook 12/15/20 12:38:19 AM 12/15/20 12:38:19 AM Reply	Whoops, didn't notice the dates I'm guessing a son. -- Drew
Post #439,139 by CRConrad 5/19/21 8:22:27 AM 5/19/21 8:22:27 AM Reply	Moonlighted as a detective in Oxford. WP: Wilhoit lived alone, and he was an opera aficionado. BTW, DrooK: No mention of any family, the sentence quoted above is all it says about his personal life, so I'm guessing composer and aphorist Frank is not a son. (If anything, "lived alone" feels like "confirmed bachelor", i.e. code for "closeted gay".) -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #441,634 by Another Scott 6/3/22 7:02:03 PM 6/3/22 7:02:03 PM Reply	Interview with him at Slate. (Posting the pointer here, also too, for completeness.) https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html Cheers, Scott.

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