Thread: Highlights and distillation of the "Conservative Moral Conundrums" video by Keith Woods ( @KeithWoodsYT).

"The way to understand conservatism and liberalism is as a response to WW2. Whatever principles these people may expound, basically, it comes down to preventing the rise of fascism again." Keith Woods explains what fascism is and how the modern left/right relate to it.

Post-WW2 morality is antifascism. We've been conditioned to believe it's bad to racially/ethnically collectivize because it'll lead to us perpetrating genocide and it's good to weaken the state so that it can't oppress us. The antifascist ideal is to be rootless and selfish.

"The post-WW2 order is that there are no in-groups and out-groups because that could lead to genocide. The friend is someone who accepts universal liberal principles and the enemy is someone that doesn't." Keith Woods extrapolates Carl Schmitt's friend/enemy distinction.

As an antifascist dialectic, conservatism/liberalism opposes the ethnonationalism, statism and anti-capitalism of fascism. The WW2 victors who live off our states and economies fear us collectivizing as autonomous nationalists and socialists (statists, collective > capital).

Keith Woods on the moral cop-out of conservatives in their "Naziesque" willingness to sacrifice the old/sick in returning to work to protect the economy and the incoherence of conservatives in opposing state mandated abortion and euthanasia.

Conservatives are more amenable to being ruled by impersonal market forces than the state. Conservatives are more amenable to being oppressed by big capital (big tech censorship) than the state. This renders them politically impotent.

Keith Woods to conservatives behaving like liberals in resisting power: "How are you ever going to implement your will? How are you ever going to get what you want if your only practical application of your values is to try and weaken the state?"

"Statism is something people need to embrace. The choice now is statism or capitalism. Do you want to be ruled by the state or do you want to be ruled by capital?" Keith Woods on the polarity of power formed by the market and the state.

All flow-charts combined. A3 size.

Full "Conservative Moral Conundrums" video by Keith Woods.