{"id":306,"date":"2006-01-23T00:41:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T05:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=306"},"modified":"2006-01-23T00:41:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T05:41:59","slug":"where-have-the-real-conservatives-all-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/23\/where-have-the-real-conservatives-all-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have the &#8220;real&#8221; conservatives all gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/80714460\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/38\/80714460_0bbfc1558e_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Swinging left\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArne Kildegaard and I are using Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-culture.cc\/\">Free culture<\/a><\/cite> as one of the texts in our Open Source\/Network Economics course this semester.  Last time (two years ago), we used his <cite>Future of ideas<\/cite>, which worked out quite nicely, so I&#8217;m optimistic about <cite>Free culture<\/cite>.  (It&#8217;s also cool because it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-culture.cc\/freecontent\/\">freely available on-line<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> license.)<\/p>\n<p>In <cite>Free culture<\/cite>&#8216;s preface, Lessig quotes William Safire writing about his experience protesting in 2003 against proposed FCC changes to relax limits on media concentration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDoes that sound unconservative?  Not to me.  The concentration of power &#8212; political, corporate, media, cultural &#8212; should be anathema to conservatives.  The diffusion of power through local control, thereby encouraging individual participation, is the essence of federalism and the greatest expression of democracy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoo, yah!  I don&#8217;t often feel like quoting Safire with enthusiasm, but I&#8217;m all with him this time.<\/p>\n<p>So where the hell are the conservatives who ought to enthusiastically object to the <em>many<\/em> types of power concentration currently being supported with all too much enthusiasm in Washington?  They only have themselves to blame if they fail to oppose this wretched hijacking of the Grand Old Party by fundamentalistic religious zealots who are all about concentration of power as long as it&#8217;s the &#8220;right&#8221; kind of power (i.e., concentration to them).  This is at its core an undemocratic trend and should be vigorously opposed all across the political spectrum.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arne Kildegaard and I are using Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s Free culture as one of the texts in our Open Source\/Network Economics course this semester. Last time (two years ago), we used his Future of ideas, which worked out quite nicely, so I&#8217;m optimistic about Free culture. (It&#8217;s also cool because it&#8217;s freely available on-line under a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/23\/where-have-the-real-conservatives-all-gone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where have the &#8220;real&#8221; conservatives all gone?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-4W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":630,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/08\/27\/ah-the-weather-turned-nice-for-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":306,"position":0},"title":"Ah, the weather turned nice for us","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"27 Aug 07","format":false,"excerpt":"The British have had a pretty dreadful summer, with cold temperatures, lots of rain, and flooding. The view above was all too typical of our experience in our first few weeks here. Rarely much rain, but precious little sunshine either. 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