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O que é ser um conservador?
47 statements · 1 politicians · August 17, 2018 · 5 min
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In an increasingly perverse and perverted world, a conservative wave is born.
But after all, do you know what it is to be a conservative?
Now listen to the words of Nicolas Ferreira.
First of all, I would like to say the following: conservatism is not a religion, much less an ideology.
It doesn't have a sacred book, like Christianity has—the Bible—or, for example, like the left has, which in that case is Capital, namely Karl Marx's.
invented capitalism, for example.
There is no author who invented capitalism, much less conservatism.
But today I brought for us ten principles regarding what conservatism is, from Russell Kirk.
We, as conservatives, often live something, because we understand that conservatism, in fact, is more related to a character—a way of seeing the social order of things—than it is really something you cling to like a Marxist ideology, for example.
but I warn everyone so that we really seek to know what we live — which in this case is the origin — and there's no way you can know what we live if you don't study, if you don't read.
With regard to Russell Kirk himself and others, for example Roger Scruton, their books are truly the basis of what we live.
And he gives a definition: Russell Kirk already begins in his book by saying the following—that conservatism is the denial of ideology, it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order.
Right away he already says that conservatism is not an ideology.
Why?
We usually think of ideology as if it were simply a set of ideas.
People say, 'no, I have my ideology,' but in truth we have to break that, because indeed the concept of ideology is not that.
The first time the word ideology was spoken was from the mouth of Napoleon Bonaparte, at the end of the 18th century.
And he used that word to refer to his opponents.
And he called them ideologues.
And Marx, very clever as always, took that word and defined it as we know it today, which means a kind of guise of ideas.
What does that mean?
They are ideas that, in fact, are used as a cover to disguise the real interest behind them.
For example, Marxist ideology uses ideas—feminism, the idea of the MST, gay activism.
to be able to mask its real objective.
And its objective—Marx and António Gramsci have already made very clear that the first obstacle for them to actually achieve communism is the question of Christianity.
So, in truth, they do not want equality for women, or freedom for people in the countryside, they do not want that.
They want, in fact, to end a structure, a social order.
which in this case is constituted by the family.
The family is an institution, so to speak, the smallest we have, but whose bonds are the strongest—between the father, between the mother, between the child.
So the morality we have today does not come simply... out of nowhere.
It is not governed.
And I, at least I — right?
As a Christian, I will not go into that part, but I, at least as a Christian, have God as the moral source.
From what I have studied, from the philosophers I have read, I don't see any other moral source than God that provides this possibility.
Today, respect, for example, for parents is completely eroded; respect for authorities, for example the Military Police—the institution of the Military Police; respect for institutions, whether the church, the evangelical church, the Catholic church, the church in general—and this is very much lost.
So, order, justice, freedom... they are products and a result of years and years and years and years of experience.
And the third principle he says is the following: conservatives believe in what can be called the principle of prescription.
What is the principle of prescription?
He says that we, we conservatives, have a sense that is the following: that the modern man, the modern person, is as if a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant.
He has the view, he can see further than the giant, but only because... only insofar as he depends on the stature of his predecessor.
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