>>24486480
Actually low IQ idiots are esoteric fascists.
>World is unstable and everything is changing too fast
>Let's return to an utopian past that never existed instead of dealing rationally, with optimism, wit, and hope, with the problems that confront us
Right wing and conservatism are the ideologies of the retarded and the demented old.
To return to OP, Intellectual conservatism is an oxymoron because the more educated you become the less sense being a conservative makes sense.
A quick historical overview will show that such conservative concepts as nation and race, like whiteness, are very new, most of them originating with the revolutions of the 1800th centuries and the romantic volk retardation. The same with so called traditions. Most of them are far fresher than the conservatives suspect (For example, there was nothing traditional about Hitler's torch marches and dances).
And then is the issue of government and state, What is the state? What purpose does is serve? A serious analysis will lead you into relativity and leftist thinking.
And then there's psychology and sociology. What is a nation? Are you born a Russian, Estonian, American, or you become one through learning performative actions and performative perceptions proper for the social organization you're born into? What is citizenship? How real is it?
The problem with conservative thinking is that it's essentialist. It believes there are some hardcore truths about human identity and social organization and everything that deviates from these hardcore truths is improper, wrong. Such a position has no intellectual ground versus a leftist progressive thinker who studied history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and who is painfully aware of the relativity and performativity of human behaviour, be it micro- or macrosocial. The only retort a conservative thinker can make is to religion (a human invention) or tradition (human invention) or nation or race (human inventions, to certain degree). He's like a rat pressed against the wall. He doesn't have any way but to capitulate. And if he decides to read up to make a weighty argument to a leftist, and if he's intellectually honest, he will come to see how leftist, progressive, postmodern ideas are actually more rooted in reality than his essentialist, essentially archaic and primitive, thinking.
Hence, why all smart people tend to be leftists or end on the left in the end. It's a result of the rational, unbiased analysis of the human social situation.
