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These attributes are ever more assets such as land, property, wealth, fame, commodities, good works and elite status. The substantiation of the individual's worth and consequence is based upon the comparison of the self and one's circumstances to models to which they are suppose to correspond. In this way the individual is not free, but a slave to the instructions, orders, demands and directives of material gain. Therefore the Progressive relies for worth not on pre-existent states, but on changed states as progressed and improved.
The True Conservative derives worth and consequence from pre-existent states. These states are the born self, the community when one is proud of it, the natural world, and spiritual connectedness. The individual self-being a creation
of the universe, derives worth as an aspect of this fantastic creation and as such is considered equal to the worth of the entirety of the whole, and or whatever one can imagine it to be. The individual is a member of a larger community to which every individual and family must rely, which can be the local community, the larger state and nation or the world community. To the extent that one understands the workings of all the various communities large and small, is to the extent one can
identify and feel themselves as part and able to contribute, assume roles, and be an equivalence in worth to any aspect large or small. The True Conservative does not rely on the standard hierarchies of importance and worth as exampled by
the typical wage scales and status symbols. That the individual is excluded from many if not most of these communities is for
reasons of private greed and inferiority and is not one's personal fault. If the individual is unhappy with the community in the sense of the ignorance and corruption found everywhere, one can take refuge in the state of nature which is pure, honest and beautiful, if somewhat violent. Another means
of asserting one's worth is through the conviction that the natural world is a spiritual state and that elements of this state will recognize and communicate with the individual, giving one a greater sense of consequence than simply
material. This sense of spirituality then may also transcend the limitations of single life. The True Conservative relies on the pre-existent state for worth and consequence and not on the need to transform and destroy pre-existent states for personal substantiation of worth.
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