Ironically, while many "right wingers" or "conservatives" think we need to build something new, it makes a lot more sense to start learning ancient wisdom again, including the old poems such as the epic of Gilgamesh and other Mesopotamian legends, early and later Greeks, Romans, early Christians such as St. Augustine, legends from cultures like the celts or the nords, and stories from eastern Europe. I think we can even learn a lot from cultures such as China, where Confucianism is the most conservative ideology in existence, or India where they have the largest canon in existence accumulated over millennia. Building a slightly different progressive postmodern ideology I think isn't actually a win for the right, it's just another form of win for the left.
The only thing that can work that isn't merely a retarded version of leftist ideology is to use that ancient wisdom as the soil from which a new vibrant plant can grow. Looking at the past and learning from our ancestors, from there we can determine a path forward built on the knowledge we used to have about how humans work as the foundation. Jordan Peterson does this in his book Maps of Meaning, where he looks at ancient stories through the lens of common archetypes and finds often the same stories are told over and over again. Some of the things people get mad about him saying aren't really thinks he's saying, but things all of humanity's wisdom tell us told through many cultures stories. Instead of looking at them as literal stories, they make much more sense as allegory and symbolism.
Answers that are correct often start small and grow as people around you see the wisdom in what you're doing. Find the right answers and over time it will grow.
The only thing that can work that isn't merely a retarded version of leftist ideology is to use that ancient wisdom as the soil from which a new vibrant plant can grow. Looking at the past and learning from our ancestors, from there we can determine a path forward built on the knowledge we used to have about how humans work as the foundation. Jordan Peterson does this in his book Maps of Meaning, where he looks at ancient stories through the lens of common archetypes and finds often the same stories are told over and over again. Some of the things people get mad about him saying aren't really thinks he's saying, but things all of humanity's wisdom tell us told through many cultures stories. Instead of looking at them as literal stories, they make much more sense as allegory and symbolism.
Answers that are correct often start small and grow as people around you see the wisdom in what you're doing. Find the right answers and over time it will grow.
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I was thinking about this the other night. We don't need to tell new stories. We need to keep telling the old stories and learn the old ways.