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If conservatism is a specific reaction to a specific movement of emancipation, it stands to reason that each reaction will bear the traces of the movement it opposes.
This is a fair assessment of what constitutes conservatism. If we find a historical rhythm to this reactionary rhetoric based on the revolutionary attitudes of its time, we could expect to find the reaction of its time. I'll add that this reaction could take many forms.
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
“We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Doctor Sleep
― Doctor Sleep
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“You can scare him, you bet—he’s a retired salesman, not Superman—but if you load enough tension on top of fright you turn it into anger, same as enough pressure turns coal into a diamond.”
― Black House
― Black House
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