 G'day, May 40 here Looking out at Watson's Bay over there, and I was clamoring all over those rocks go north from Manley Beach so Twisting and turning my ankle constantly as I clamor over the rocks, but I like to think that all the Positional release strain counter strain therapy I've been doing has enabled my ankles to stay more flexible so Reading Ronnie Gouldman's book on conservative theories of cultural oppression You know, it's that liberals want us to stop hitting the accelerator on our cars on our ambitions on our appetites on everything so Conservatives We believe that social and political life is sustained not only by ideas but much more carefully by Those habits that come before conscious rationalization and reflection All right, we pick up more rays in ways that resist formal codification or even articulation and Amy Wax makes makes this point that Conservatives fear what gay marriage will do Because it takes us away from tradition Right the powers of human reason are severely limited right all of our intellectual gifts are Not fully capable of meeting the challenge that life Presents right the dilemmas of human existence Frequently resistant to rational analysis because social practices and traditions do not derive from first principles But they evolve over time by trial and error So that's the the basis of conservative claims of cultural oppression That it begins fundamentally with different understandings about the nature of the self Whether we are porous or buffered right so from a conservative perspective the thief the Feet us it's not just a fetus, but it's on the way to becoming fully human Right you can't just rationalize it as always just a fetus. No it is honest way to full humanity and The case for a traditional marriage Something that may largely resist Philosophical first principles, but we fear that if you upset Traditional more rays Who knows what will be lost? Like if in all of human history until recently There's never any such thing as same-sex marriage from a conservative perspective That's reason enough to be highly suspicious So from a right-wing perspective, we don't trust human reason. We don't Trust that Reason alone can can lead us to the promised land. We want to rely upon time-tested traditions ways to organize Communities societies and families We prefer the time-tested to the new fangled ways of Organizing communities and families We prefer time-tested Moral standards more rays and customs Brilliant innovation from Harvard I think that now our grandmothers usually have more wisdom about life than We do when we're in university