1. Resetting the Values
The advent of the new administration (Trump on January 20 2017) has marked the functioning of some principles and beliefs totally different from the ones applied by the previous administrations (Obamas in particular but no only). The time has come for a reset of values for the conservative movement on its whole.
2. The Premise Situations
It is the time for all conservative factions (paleo-conservatives traditionalist conservatives neoconservatives and alt-righters) to all pull together and apply a new set of postulates based on the following premise situations:
(1) The Right believes in a Higher Authority (God) which is different than the Human Self.
(2) The Left believes that the Highest Authority is the Human Self.
(3) The Right believes in Universal Truth which is absolute that is higher than the Personal Truth which is relative.
(4) The Left believes that Personal Truth is more powerful because it is concrete while Universal Truth is inapplicable because it is too abstract.
(5) The Right believes in a predetermined set of Higher Moral Values that are constant and perpetual and therefore eternal throughout the course of time.
(6) The Left believes in a changeable set of personal or group-related values that are variable and temporary throughout the course of time.
3. A New Set of Postulates
The last half of the century has mirrored a constant attitude of justification on behalf of the Right by reporting its values to the ones of the Left. This attitude must stop.
Consequently the Right should abandon the position of justification of their stance and values by constantly reporting it to the set of values of the Left. The Right should adopt the following New Set of Postulates:
(1) The Left does not truly believe in God.
(2) If the Left does not believe in God the validity of their concrete concepts of good and bad will be variable in essence limited to individuals and groups of people and temporary.
(3) The Left promotes its own concepts of good and bad but since they do not emanate from God they are to be ignored and/or combated.
(4) The Right promotes the concepts of good and bad which emanate from God.
(5) If the Right promotes Gods concepts of good and bad they will be absolute in essence applicable to everybody and perennial in time.
(6) Therefore the concepts of good and bad of the Right are more powerful and opposed to the concepts of good and bad of the Left.
4. The New Commandments
Consequently the Right has to turn the New Set of Postulates in New Commandments and apply them accordingly.
The New Commandments are to act as refreshers of the Biblical Commandments. The Biblical Commandments have been ignored and not being applied completely for longer periods of time. Therefore they run the risk of turning into pure theoretical statements and consequently ignored.
It is the duty of the Right especially in the years to come to revive and apply consistently The New Commandments following The New Set of Postulates.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in MEDIUM.
Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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1. Resetting the Values
The advent of the new administration (Trump on January 20 2017) has marked the functioning of some principles and beliefs totally different from the ones applied by the previous administrations (Obamas in particular but no only). The time has come for a reset of values for the conservative movement on its whole.
2. The Premise Situations
It is the time for all conservative factions (paleo-conservatives traditionalist conservatives neoconservatives and alt-righters) to all pull together and apply a new set of postulates based on the following premise situations:
(1) The Right believes in a Higher Authority (God) which is different than the Human Self.
(2) The Left believes that the Highest Authority is the Human Self.
(3) The Right believes in Universal Truth which is absolute that is higher than the Personal Truth which is relative.
(4) The Left believes that Personal Truth is more powerful because it is concrete while Universal Truth is inapplicable because it is too abstract.
(5) The Right believes in a predetermined set of Higher Moral Values that are constant and perpetual and therefore eternal throughout the course of time.
(6) The Left believes in a changeable set of personal or group-related values that are variable and temporary throughout the course of time.
3. A New Set of Postulates
The last half of the century has mirrored a constant attitude of justification on behalf of the Right by reporting its values to the ones of the Left. This attitude must stop.
Consequently the Right should abandon the position of justification of their stance and values by constantly reporting it to the set of values of the Left. The Right should adopt the following New Set of Postulates:
(1) The Left does not truly believe in God.
(2) If the Left does not believe in God the validity of their concrete concepts of good and bad will be variable in essence limited to individuals and groups of people and temporary.
(3) The Left promotes its own concepts of good and bad but since they do not emanate from God they are to be ignored and/or combated.
(4) The Right promotes the concepts of good and bad which emanate from God.
(5) If the Right promotes Gods concepts of good and bad they will be absolute in essence applicable to everybody and perennial in time.
(6) Therefore the concepts of good and bad of the Right are more powerful and opposed to the concepts of good and bad of the Left.
4. The New Commandments
Consequently the Right has to turn the New Set of Postulates in New Commandments and apply them accordingly.
The New Commandments are to act as refreshers of the Biblical Commandments. The Biblical Commandments have been ignored and not being applied completely for longer periods of time. Therefore they run the risk of turning into pure theoretical statements and consequently ignored.
It is the duty of the Right especially in the years to come to revive and apply consistently The New Commandments following The New Set of Postulates.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in MEDIUM.
Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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