Turning the tables: a conservative critical theory?
I put some posts up on Medium , continuing my research on Locke and Strauss, focusing on Locke’s natural law theory. I called his ideas of Christian natural law and liberalism the Lockean Twins. The two provide checks and balances against each other in a society - wisdom balancing freedom, and a tendency to err on the side of freedom to balance human fallibility in achieving and agreeing upon the wisdom. But natural law considerations have been stripped from positive law and public administration in the 20th century. The result has been a loss of common sense and an increase in absurdity. Here, I will follow those posts up with some sketchy thoughts on what might be done. I have some relevant long-term predictions on the future in a previous post, but in the present I contemplate a more activist approach. I am not sure whether I am being absurd or serious, maybe both. Writing this gives me a feeling like what the old Marxist cultural theorists must have felt in their scheming against ...