The King in Orange with John Michael Greer
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Edmund burke was, was the founder of anglo american conservatism. He was active in the eighteenth century. His basic point was that human beings are much less smart than they think they are. And so when a bunch of people come up with a wonderful new scheme to reform everything and make a perfect world, it's going to be a complete disaster. The political systems we have, the institutions we have, problematic, boring, troublesome, annoying as they are, one virtue, they have been proven to work at least to some extent,. They also tend to kill fewer people than these marvellous new, brilliant ideas that get put place.
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