alt Hacker NewsConservative people just can't create technology. Technology is always progressive.
It can be progressive towards any amount of things, good or bad. But conservatism requires not developing it.
Conservative people just can't create technology. Technology is always progressive.
It can be progressive towards any amount of things, good or bad. But conservatism requires not developing it.
I think this is conflating conservatism as a political position and conservatism as an anti-development position. Conservatism as a political position has very little to do with actual developmental changes and way more to do with retaining existing political hierarchies. If a new tool came into existence to enforce a existing caste systems (race, class, whatever) then political conservatism would be for this tool.
Consider reading Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills as a great display of this difference in the context of reproductive rights[0].
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/