[Avodah] Liberal vs Conservative Value System

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 02/02/17 07:41, Rabbi Mordechai Harris via Avodah wrote:
> As Jonathan Haidt points out in his must read book "The Righteous Mind:
> Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion", any Orthodoxy is
> fundamentally not progressive nor conservative. Both progressive and
> conservative ideologies have an anchor for behavior determined by the
> internal status quo (one seeks to find 'better' through change, the other
> seeks to maintain 'safety' or 'good' through sticking to what is proven).

These definitions of "progressive" and "conservative" are very outdated. 
  Those terms, as used in politics today, no longer mean (if they ever 
did) what their literal definitions may imply. Neither "progressives" 
nor "conservatives" care much about the status quo.  Both seek to 
preserve the status quo to the extent that they like it, and to improve 
on it to the extent that they dislike it, but they have very different 
views on what is an improvement and what is a deterioration.

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