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The creation of
Qualified States is the promotion of the absence
of natural qualities and conditions. The night is cold which is natural, so a fire must be built which changes the natural state. The hydro-electric dam changes the natural dynamics of the river and when the nuclear power plant is built, the affect upon the environment may be become very long lasting and for all practical purposes permanent. If the temperature of the planet is to cold, the burning of fuels partly for heating, the atmospheric thermostat
of the planet is turned up, the impact of which may be very permanent indeed.
The necessity to create Qualified States is fundamental to human existence. However the degree to which the natural world is changed for human purposes, represents a fundamental distinction between Conservative and Progressive. Conservative means that the
Consequential Integrity of the natural world, or any given pre-existent state and entity, is considered greater than the ability to create alternatives to it.
Progression is represented as change which replaces an inferior state with a superior one. Progressive means that an alternative state is of greater consequence than the condition it replaces.
Recorded history could be said to be the chronicles of
Progressive Materialism. There are almost no Conservatives in the modern world any longer except for some few enclaves such as the Amish. The Native Americans were conservative. After having lived where they did for thousands of years there was hardly left a trace. The pre-existent condition of the natural world possessed a greater integrity than the alternatives of Qualified States. Civilization is the progressive alteration of the natural world to produce greater and greater standards of living.
Conservative/Progressive Dichotomy (3 of 4)
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