- Mon May 15, 2023 12:58 pm
#44299
I've always believed in a sort of societal evolution - which applies in all sorts of ways.
If some Swedish designer comes up with a 'new concept' park bench, then it's likely to be uncomfortable, because park benches have developed, evolved, over a couple of centuries by small comfort-related adaptations.
Same is true for many designs, and of course, social paradigms. We have seen that in changes in attitudes, amongst some, to, for example, sexism and racism. These paradigms are not universal, though, and Conservatives wish to hold back evolution of them.
To say we want to conserve the best of the past, that which works, the comfortable park bench, and to evolve that which our moral sense tells us needs development is a sophisticated argument, but one which a sensible and mature government statement.
It seems to me that that is what Starmer is saying.
If some Swedish designer comes up with a 'new concept' park bench, then it's likely to be uncomfortable, because park benches have developed, evolved, over a couple of centuries by small comfort-related adaptations.
Same is true for many designs, and of course, social paradigms. We have seen that in changes in attitudes, amongst some, to, for example, sexism and racism. These paradigms are not universal, though, and Conservatives wish to hold back evolution of them.
To say we want to conserve the best of the past, that which works, the comfortable park bench, and to evolve that which our moral sense tells us needs development is a sophisticated argument, but one which a sensible and mature government statement.
It seems to me that that is what Starmer is saying.
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The moneychangers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply values more noble than mere monetary profit.
